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==External Resources== | ==External Resources== | ||
| + | *PIWP listing of articles by or about The TransAtlantic Institute can be found [http://www.corkpsc.org/db.php?auid=2692 here] (click on button). | ||
*Amiram Barkat, "[http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=395916 An American Jewish lobby at the European Union]", Ha'aretz, 19 February 2004) | *Amiram Barkat, "[http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=395916 An American Jewish lobby at the European Union]", Ha'aretz, 19 February 2004) | ||
*American Jewish Committee, Press Release: [http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=1531911&ct=2902737 Transatlantic Institute Names Emanuele Ottolenghi as New Director], 28 August 2006. | *American Jewish Committee, Press Release: [http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=1531911&ct=2902737 Transatlantic Institute Names Emanuele Ottolenghi as New Director], 28 August 2006. | ||
[[Category:Middle East Watch]] | [[Category:Middle East Watch]] | ||
Revision as of 13:00, 31 August 2006
The Transatlantic Institute is "a Jewish research institute whose declared aim is no less than strengthening the ties between the United States and the countries of the European Union (the undeclared aim is to serve as a lobby)". The TTI's principal office is in Brussels, but it has opened offices in all the new entrants to the EU (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, etc.) and also some potential entrants (Bulgaria). At it opening gala celebration in Brussels many of the EU luminaries were present, e.g., Javier Solana. The aim of the organization is to lobby EU governments and the EU-Brussels in particular. It aims to become a the European version of AIPAC, or EIPAC.
Principals
- Emanuele Ottolenghi Director (appointed August 2006)
External Resources
- PIWP listing of articles by or about The TransAtlantic Institute can be found here (click on button).
- Amiram Barkat, "An American Jewish lobby at the European Union", Ha'aretz, 19 February 2004)
- American Jewish Committee, Press Release: Transatlantic Institute Names Emanuele Ottolenghi as New Director, 28 August 2006.
