Europeans #StandwithUkraine

The Russian government has, without provocation, invaded a sovereign democratic nation at the heart of Europe. The Putin regime is, in the words of Martin Kimani, the Kenyan Ambassador to the UN, “stoking the embers of dead empires”. We, the undersigned, Europeans from all over our continent who are members of the European Council on Foreign Relations, stand resolutely in solidarity with the people of Ukraine in their effort to resist this re-colonisation. Their fight is our fight. Their future lies in Europe with us, as Europeans among Europeans. We call on all our governments to #StandWithUkraine by:

• Denouncing Putin’s aggression and exposing his lies: We must expose Putin’s lies and denounce his crimes in every international forum. We need to loudly proclaim that the Putin regime has blatantly violated the most fundamental European norms and laws of international conduct.
• Sanctioning the Putin regime: We must impose the harshest possible sanctions on Putin and all the pillars of his regime. We need to expel all Russian intelligence personnel from all EU countries.
• Supporting the freedom and safety of Ukrainians: We must provide for Ukrainians in their time of need by sending all kinds of aid to all those who can remain in Ukraine and offering refuge to those who cannot. We must also cancel Ukraine’s debt and allow Ukrainians special dispensation to work in the European Union.
• Sharing the burden within Europe: European states must support each other in their efforts to stand with Ukraine. Unity and solidarity are our strengths. No EU state should have to bear the burdens of supporting Ukraine alone.We need to share the costs of sanctions, help each other to develop alternatives to Russian energy, and welcome Ukrainian refugees in every part of Europe.

Signatories

1. Douglas Alexander – former Secretary of State for International Development
2. Joaquín Almunia – Chair, Centre for European Policy Studies; former Vice-President of the European Commission 
3. José M. de Areilza – Secretary General, Aspen Institute Spain
4. Senem Aydın-Düzgit – Professor of International Relations, Sabanci University; Academic Affairs Coordinator, Istanbul Policy Centre
5. Claudia Azevedo – CEO, Sonae
6. Thomas Bagger – Director-General for Foreign Affairs, Office of the Federal President of Germany
7. Gordon Bajnai – former Prime Minister of Hungary
8. Lluís Bassets – Journalist and former Deputy Director, El País
9. Carl Bildt – Co-Chair, ECFR; former Prime Minister of Sweden
10. Anu Bradford – Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization & Director, European Legal Studies Center, Columbia Law School
11. Sandra Breka  – CEO, Robert Bosch Stiftung
12. Han ten Broeke – Director of Political Affairs, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
13. John Bruton – former Prime Minister of Ireland
14. Alistair Burt – Pro-Chancellor, Lancaster University; former Minister of State for the Middle East  
15. Ditmir Bushati – Member of Parliament; former Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania
16. Reinhard Bütikofer – Member of the European Parliament
17. Isabel Capeloa Gil  – Rector, Catholic University of Portugal
18. Gunilla Carlsson – former Deputy Director, UNAIDS; former Minister for International Development Cooperation
19. Maria Cattaui – Member of the Global Board, OSF; former Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce
20. Dita Charanzová – Vice-President, European Parliament
21. Céline Charveriat – Executive Director, Institute for European Environment Policy
22. Ian Clarkson – Board Member, ECFR; Founder, Celerant Consulting
23. Robert Cooper – former Ambassador and Special Adviser, European External Action Service
24. Lucinda Creighton – CEO, Vulcan Consulting; former Minister for European Affairs of Ireland
25. Srdjan Darmanovic – former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro
26. Marta Dassù – Board Member, ECFR; Senior Advisor Europe, The Aspen Institute; Editor-in-Chief, Aspenia
27. Julia De Clerck-Sachsse – Senior Non-Resident Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
28. Tibor Dessewffy – President, DEMOS Hungary
29. Anna Diamantopoulou – President, DIKTIO – Network for Reform in Greece and Europe
30. Nikola Dimitrov – former Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs of North Macedonia
31. Klara Dobrev – Member of the European Parliament
32. Sorin Ducaru – Director, European Union Satellite Centre; former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges
33. Piero Fassino – Chairman of Foreign and European Affairs committee, Italian Chamber of Deputies
34. Karin Forseke – Non-Executive Director, Greater Than AB
35. Lykke Friis – Co-Chair, ECFR; Director, Taenketanken Europa
36. Timothy Garton Ash – Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford
37. Carlos Gaspar – Member of the Board of Directors, Portuguese Institute of International Relations 
38. Anthony Giddens – Life Fellow, University of Cambridge
39. Arancha González Laya – Dean, Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain
40. José Manuel González-Páramo – President, European DataWarehouse
41. Teresa Gouveia – Board Member, ECFR; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal
42. Heather Grabbe – Director, Open Society European Policy Institute
43. Alexander Graf Lambsdorff – Member of the Bundestag; Deputy Chair of the FDP
44. Charles Grant – Director, Centre for European Reform
45. Jean-Marie Guéhenno – former President & CEO, International Crisis Group; former UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations
46. István Gyarmati – President and CEO, International Centre for Democratic Transition
47. Fabienne Hara – Secretary General, Paris Peace Forum
48. Connie Hedegaard – former European Commissioner for Climate Action
49. Anna Herrhausen – Executive Director, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft
50. Christoph Heusgen – Chairman of Munich Security Conference; former Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations
51. Toomas Hendrik Ilves – former President of Estonia
52. Wolfang Ischinger – Ambassador; Chair, Munich Security Conference
53. Carin Jämtin – Director General, Swedish International Development Cooperation Authority
54. Diana Janse – Senior Fellow, Stockholm Free World Forum
55. Jo Johnson – Chair, TES Global; former Minister for Universities and Science
56. Zeljko Jovanovic – Director, Roma Initiative Office, Open Society Foundations
57. Rasa Juknevičienė – Member of the European Parliament; former Minister of Defence of Lithuania
58. Eva Kaili – Vice-President, European Parliament
59. Mary Kaldor – Professor, London School of Economics
60. Bahadir Kaleagasi – President, Paris Bosphorus Institute 
61. Sandra Kalniete  – Member of the European Parliament; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia
62. Lea Kašpar – Executive Director, Global Partners Digital
63. Sylvie Kauffmann – Board Member, ECFR; Editorial Director, Le Monde
64. Piia-Noora Kauppi – Managing Director, Federation of Finnish Financial Services
65. Roderich Kiesewetter – Member of the Bundestag
66. Suat Kınıklıoğlu – Senior Fellow, Center for Applied Turkey Studies
67. Riina Kionka – Ambassador of Estonia; Head of the EU Delegation to South Africa
68. Bassma Kodmani – former Executive Director, Arab Reform Initiative
69. Bert Koenders – former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
70. David Koranyi – Senior Adviser on City Diplomacy, Office of the Mayor of Budapest; Senior Fellow for Energy Diplomacy, Atlantic Council; Energy Policy Adviser, UN DESA
71. Ivan Krastev – Chair of the Board, Centre for Liberal Strategies
72. Brigid Laffan – Director, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute
73. Sergey Lagodinsky – Member of the European Parliament 
74. Pascal Lamy – President, Paris Peace Forum; former Director-General, WTO
75. Remzi Lani – Director, Albanian Media Institute
76. Martina Larkin – Senior Advisor to the Chair and President, World Economic Forum 
77. Mark Leonard – Director, European Council on Foreign Relations
78. Sonia Licht – President, Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence
79. Maria Livanos Cattaui – Member of the Global Board, OSF; former Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce
80. Javi López – Member of the European Parliament
81. Leiv Lunde – Senior Advisor on Asia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
82. Cecilia Malmström – former European Commissioner for Trade
83. Katarina Mathernova – Deputy Director General, Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission
84. Eva Maydell – Member of the European Parliament
85. David McAllister – Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, European Parliament
86. David McNair – Executive Director for Global Policy, ONE Campaign
87. Anand Menon – Director, UK in a Changing Europe
88. Dario Mihelin – Ambassador of Croatia to China
89. David Miliband – President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
90. Enrique Mora – Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs, Political Director, European External Action Service
91. Susan Morgan – Freelance Consultant
92. Isabel Mota – President of the Board of Trustees, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
93. Matthias Nass – Chief International Correspondent, DIE ZEIT
94. Kalypso Nicolaidis – Chair and Professor of International Affairs, School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute
95. Natalie Nougayrède – Columnist and leader writer, The Guardian
96. Delphine O – Secretary General, UN Women Global Forum, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
97. Christine Ockrent – Journalist and Presenter of Affaires Etrangères, France Culture Radio
98. Hanna Ojanen – Research Director, Tampere University
99. Andrzej Olechowski – Board Member, ECFR; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
100. Dick Oosting – Chair of the Board, Asylos; former Europe Director, Amnesty International
101. Mabel van Oranje – Global Champion, Girls Not Brides – The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage
102. Constatijn van Oranje – Special Envoy, StartupDelta; Director for Digital Technology & Macro Strategy, Macro Advisory Partners
103. Andrés Ortega – Senior Research Fellow, Real Instituto Elcano
104. Marc Otte – Senior Associate Fellow, Egmont Institute; Vice-President, European Institute for Peace; former EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process
105. Žaneta Ozoliņa – Professor, University of Latvia
106. Monika Panayotova – CEO, Inno Advisers; former Deputy Minister for the Bulgarian EU Council Presidency
107. Mauro Petriccione – Director-General, Directorate-General for Climate Action, European Commission
108. Kauppi Piia-Noora – Managing Director, Federation of Finnish Financial Services
109. Kati Piri – Dutch Member of Parliament
110. Lilianne Ploumen – Dutch Member of Parliament & Leader of the Labour Party
111. Julian Popov – Fellow, European Climate Foundation
112. Charles Powell – Director, Real Instituto Elcano
113. Vesna Pusić – former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Croatia
114. Lia Quartapelle – Italian Member of Parliament
115. Kristi Raik – Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute, International Centre for Defence and Security
116. Rémy Rioux – CEO, Agence Française de Développement
117. José María Robles Fraga – Ambassador of Spain to Lithuania
118. Alex Romero – Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Constella Intelligence
119. Norbert Röttgen – Co-Chair, ECFR; Member of the Bundestag
120. Janet Royall – Principal, Somerville College, University of Oxford; former Leader of the House of Lords
121. Nicolò Russo Perez – Head, International Affairs Programme, Compagnia di San Paolo
122. Daniel Sachs – CEO, Proventus
123. Patrycja Sasnal – Head of Research, Polish Institute of International Affairs 
124. Klaus Scharioth – Dean, Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs
125. Caroline Schmutte – Head of European Government Relations, Wellcome Trust
126. Daniela Schwarzer – Executive Director for Europe and Eurasia, Open Society Foundations
127. Narcís Serra – President, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals; former Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
128. Radmila Shekerinska – former Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister of North Macedonia
129. Maria Sicilia Salvadores – Strategy Director, Enagas S.A.
130. Aleksander Smolar – former President of the Board, Stefan Batory Foundation
131. Erna Solberg – Member of Parliament; former Prime Minister of Norway
132. Alex Soros – Deputy Chair, Open Society Foundations
133. George Soros  – Founder and Chair, Open Society Foundations
134. Svilen Spassov – Businessman and Publisher
135. Volker Stanzel – former Ambassador of Germany to China and Japan
136. Andris Strazds – Advisor, Bank of Latvia
137. Sabine Stricker-Kellerer – Lawyer, SSK Asia
138. Hannes Swoboda – President, International Institute for Peace
139. Anna Terrón Cusí – Director, International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies
140. Helle Thorning-Schmidt – Board Member, Vestas; former Prime Minister of Denmark; former CEO, Save the Children
141. Henrik Thune – State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway
142. Nathalie Tocci – Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali
143. Andreas Treichl – Chair, ERSTE Foundation; President, European Forum Alpbach
144. Erkki Tuomioja – Vice-Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland
145. Sinan Ulgen – Chair, Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies
146. Vygaudas Usackas – former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania
147. Justin Vaïsse – Director General, Paris Peace Forum; former Director of Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
148. Tomáš Valášek – Chair, European Affairs Committee, National Council of the Slovak Republic
149. Ivan Vejvoda – Acting Rector & Head of the Europe’s Futures Programme, Institute for Human Sciences
150. Romana Vlahutin – Ambassador at Large for Connectivity, European External Action Service
151. Ivan Vuković  – Mayor of Podgorica
152. Johann Wadephul – Member of the Bundestag; Deputy Chair of the CDU/CSU 
153. Maria Weimer – former Swedish Member of Parliament
154. Geir Westgaard – Vice President, Political and Public Affairs, Equinor
155. Sabine Weyand – Director-General, Directorate-General for Trade, European Commission
156. Karolina Wigura – Member of the Board, Kultura Liberalna Foundation
157. Andre Wilkens – Director, European Cultural Foundation
158. Maciej Witucki – President, Konfederacja Lewiatan
159. Karla Wursterova – Ambassador of Slovakia to Italy
160. Samuel Žbogar – Ambassador of Slovenia; former Head of the EU Delegation to North Macedonia; former Minister of Foreign Affairs