The reporters refused to speak to me or other representatives of the DOC and its Chairman, thereby denying the DOC the opportunity to give them an accurate and up-to-date picture of the organisation and its activities, limiting their engagement in writing to a list of very specific and loaded questions. [...] The current CEO is Jean-Christophe Bas, who previously worked as Head of Strategy and Development at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (2008-2014), Head of Policy Dialogue at the World Bank (1999-2008), Director of Democratic Citizenship and Participation at the Council of Europe (2014- 2015), and was the first Executive Director of the Aspen Institute in France (1994-1999). [...] close to positions on some issues of the Kremlin.” The authors have, it seems deliberately, failed to report on statements made by the other co- founder Walter Schwimmer, former Secretary general of the Council of Europe, in strong support of the European project. [...] The DOC works with a wide variety of partners – to name just a few, these have included the VW Foundation and Maecenata Foundation in Germany; CARI in Argentina; the Centre for China and Globalisation in China; the Fondation Prospective et Innovation of former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin; the Brazzaville Foundation under the patronage of HRH Prince Michael of Kent; and more. [...] Given this, we request that the Press Council issue a formal public reprimand, with the obligation for SPIEGEL to print this, along with a correction of the article's many inaccuracies and an admission of bias in the reporting.
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