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chapter 1 founding the efc 17 (L – R) Horst Niemeyer, Michael Brophy and Raymond Georis (1989) which was also a member of the Hague Club, and others would soon follow. Georis also used the occasion of the Helsinki Hague Club meeting to discuss the EFC idea with Michel Didisheim, then Managing Director of the King Baudouin Foundation. Didisheim supported the idea, also agreeing to be a founding member. Michel Didisheim, Managing Director of the King Baudouin Foundation during the EFC’s establishment. Second, the Leningrad meeting illustrated how the political situation in the former Soviet Union was rapidly changing. On the border crossing of the then Soviet Union to Finland, border guards stopped the train and demanded that all passengers open their luggage for inspection. In Georis’s bag the guards discovered newspaper articles about the then director of the Gorbachev Foundation, which caused a certain amount of consternation from officials on patrol. During that period, many existing Soviet authorities and trade unions were putting their wealth into foundations, most likely because they could see the writing on the wall.
18 Laying the foundations 20 years of the EFC Safeguarding money in a foundation was a means by which an important Commissar could perpetuate his power, position and privilege in the case of the collapse of the Communist Party. The hostile reaction of the border guards to Georis’s newspaper articles on the subject was a clear signal that tension was building around the unstable future of the Communist Party. The magnificent seven Following Georis’s eventful visit to Leningrad and Helsinki, he received a message from Sylvie Tsyboula, then Deputy Director of Fondation de France, which became the EFC’s fifth founding member. Georis now had five well‐known European foundations backing his idea, and he began to speak more confidently about his intention to launch the EFC. A foundation from the Netherlands, Stichting Koningin Juliana Fonds, then agreed to become the sixth founding member and Georis’s employer, the European Cultural Foundation, also backed the idea, completing the original seven founding members. Georis canvassed the members, enquiring about their availabilities for a first face‐to‐face meeting. It seemed that 9 November 1989 was the only date they all had available, so plans for the first meeting in Anderlecht were initiated.
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