History
The organisation began as the Club of Three in the mid-1990s with annual meetings between leading figures from Britain, France and Germany. In 2006 the Club of Three embarked on a significant transition process with the establishment of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, created to serve as an umbrella-organisation that would implement the Club of Three and its various offshoots. At the same time it was envisioned that the Institute would shift away from one-off conferences towards long-term, results-oriented programmes in a number of ‘core competency' areas related to Europe's strategic threats and opportunities.
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