Stockholm Network

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The Stockholm Network is a working group of European market-oriented think-tanks. It has two primary objectives: to build a wide network of pro-market policy specialists within Europe and to use that network to influence the future direction of European policy-making on issues of pan-European importance. It was founded in 1997 in London and Stockholm.

On its website the groups states that it "brings together more than 110 market-oriented think tanks from across Europe, giving us the capacity to deliver local messages and locally-tailored global messages across the EU and beyond." [1]

Writing in The Times in December 2005, Paul Staines wrote that the Stockholm Network, "turns out to be in fact the public face of Market House International, a PR consultancy that tells corporate clients that the network gives it 'local capacity to deliver both local messages and locally tailored global messages in a wide range of countries'." [2]

Origins and History

The British connection

The network was founded in London and Stockholm, though it is operated out of London and has a large contingent of UK members. These are:

Adam Smith Institute | Centre for European Reform | Centre for Policy Studies | Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies | CIVITAS | David Hume Institute | E.G. West Centre | Hayek Society | Institute of Economic Affairs | International Policy Network | Libertarian Alliance | Nurses for Reform | Open Europe | Policy Exchange | Policy Institute | Politeia | Project Empowerment | Reform | Social Affairs Unit | Globalization Institute

What topics we discuss:

The Network is interested in ideas which stimulate economic growth and help people to help themselves. We promote policies which create the social and economic conditions for a free society. These include:

  • Reforming European welfare states and creating a more flexible labour market.
  • Creating competition and choice in healthcare, through reform of European health systems and markets.
  • Creating a market in which world class education can flourish.
  • Emphasisng the benefits of globalisation and creating an understanding of free market ideas.

Members

People

The Stockholm Network does not have a board and is owned and run by Helen Disney

Personnel

Health and Welfare Programme

The Stockholm Network's Health and Welfare Programme was set up at the end of 2005. Key aims and objectives include:[3]

  • Providing a comprehensive resource on European think tank initiatives in the field of Health and Welfare
  • Promoting competition and choice in healthcare, through reform of European health systems and markets
  • Promoting more flexible labour markets in Europe
  • Promoting market oriented reform of Europe's failing pensions systems

Contact, References and Resources

Contact information

35 Britannia Row
London, N1 8QH
United Kingdom
Email: info@ stockholm-network.org
Phone: +44 (0)20 7354 8888
Fax: +44 (0)20 7359 8888
Web: www.stockholm-network.org
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stockholm-Network/135765338804

External links

References

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Paul Staines, 'You want policy? In cash?', The Times (London), 20 December 2005, Page 19.
  3. ↑ Stockholm Networks. Health and Welfare Accessed 8 April 2010.
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