Stockholm Network
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]
Contents
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
- Adam Smith Institute, UK
- Adam Smith Society, Italy
- Adriatic Institute for Public Policy
- Albanian Liberal Institute, Albania
- Anders Chydenius Foundation, Finland
- Association for Liberal Thinking, Turkey
- Association for Modern Economy, Macedonia
- Avenir Suisse, Switzerland
- Bertil Ohlin Institute, Sweden
- Bulgaria Society for Individual Liberty, Bulgaria
- Causa Liberal, Portugal
- Centre for Democracy and Free Enterprise, Czech Republic
- Centre for Economic Development, Bulgaria
- Centre for Economic Development, Slovakia
- Centre for Economics and Politics, Czech Republic
- Centre for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, Montenegro
- Centre for European Reform, UK
- Centre for Institutional Analysis and Development
- Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria
- Centre for Liberal-Democratic Studies, Serbia
- Centre for Policy Studies, UK
- Centre for Political Thought, Poland
- Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies, UK
- Centre for Social and Economic Research, Poland
- Centre for the New Europe
- Centre for the Study of Democracy, Bulgaria
- Centro Einaudi, Italy
- Cercles Liberaux, France
- CIDAS, Italy
- Civic Institute, Czech Republic
- Civita, Norway
- CIVITAS, United Kingdom
- Conservative Institute of M. R. Stefanik, Slovakia
- Council on Public Policy, Germany
- David Hume Institute, United Kingdom
- E.G. West Centre, UK
- Economic Policy Research Institute, Macedonia
- Ekome, Greece
- Eudoxa, Sweden
- Euro 92 (think tank), France
- European Ideas Network, Brussels
- European Independent Institute, The Netherlands
- EVA (think tank), Finland
- F. A. v. Hayek Institute, Austria
- Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Italy
- Foundation for Market Economy, Hungary
- Frédéric Bastiat Stichting, The Netherlands
- Free Market Centre, Serbia
- Freedom Institute, Ireland
- Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, Germany
- Friedrich von Hayek Gesellschaft, Germany
- Fundacio Catalunya Oberta, Spain
- Fundacion Internacional para la Libertad (FIL), Spain
- Gdansk Institute for Market Economics, Poland
- Hayek Foundation, Russia
- Hayek Foundation, Slovakia
- Hayek Society, Hungary
- Hayek Society, LSE, London
- Health Consumer Powerhouse, Belgium
- Health Reform, Czech Republic
- Hellenic Leadership Institute
- IFRAP, France
- Independent Institute of Socio-Economic and Political Studies, Belarus
- INEKO, Slovakia
- Institut Constant de Rebecque, Switzerland
- Institut Economique Molinari, Belgium
- Institut Hayek, Belgium
- Institut Karla Havlicka Borovskeho, Czech Republic
- Institut Montaigne, France
- Institut Turgot, France
- Institute for Economic Studies Europe, Aix-en-Provence
- Institute for Free Enterprise, Germany
- Institute for Free Society, Slovakia
- Institute for International Relations, Croatia
- Institute for Market Economics (IME), Bulgaria
- Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognosis, Montenegro
- Institute for Transistional Democracy and International Security, Hungary
- Institute of Economic Affairs, UK
- Institute of Economic Analysis, Russia
- Institute of Economic Studies, Iceland
- Institute of Economics (Ekonomski Institut), Croatia
- Instituto Juan de Mariana, Spain
- Instytut Liberalno-Konserwatywny, Poland
- International Centre for Economic Research, Italy
- International Council for Capital Formation, Brussels
- International Policy Network, United Kingdom
- Istituto Acton, Italy
- Istituto Bruno Leoni, Italy
- Jaan Tonisson Institut, Estonia
- Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, Israel
- Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Germany
- Liberales Institut, Switzerland
- Liberales, Belgium
- Liberalni Institute, Czech Republic
- Libertarian Alliance, United Kingdom
- Libertas (think tank)
- Liberty Ideas, Austria
- Lithuanian Free Market Institute
- Ludwig von Mises Institute Europe, Brussels
- Ludwig von Mises Institute, Romania
- M.E.S.A. 10, Slovakia
- Magna Carta Foundation, Italy
- New Economic School, Georgia
- New Economics School, Russia
- New Social Market Economy Foundation, Germany
- Nova Civitas, Belgium
- Nova Res Publica, Italy
- Nurses for Reform, created in 2006.
- Open Europe, United Kingdom
- Open Republic Institute
- Poder Limitado, Spain
- Policy Exchange, United Kingdom
- Politeia, United Kingdom
- Project Empowerment, United Kingdom
- Ratio Institute, Sweden
- Reform, United Kingdom
- Riinvest Institute for Development Research, Kosovo
- Romania Think Tank
- Romanian Centre for Economic Policies
- Sauvegarde Retraites (Save the Pensions), France
- Social Affairs Unit, London
- Stiftung Marktwirtschaft, Germany
- Taxpayers' Alliance
- Telders Foundation, Netherlands
- The Copenhagen Institute, Denmark
- Globalization Institute, United Kingdom
- Think Tank for International Governance Research, Austria
- Thomas More Institute, Belgium
- Timbro, Sweden
- Ukrainian Centre for Independent Political Research
- Venezie Institute, Italy
- Walter Eucken Institut, Germany
People
The Stockholm Network does not have a board and is owned and run by Helen Disney
Personnel
- Helen Disney, Director
- Rick Nye, Company Secretary, also a director of opinion pollsters Populus
- Anne Jensen, Project Officer, IP, Competition and Trade programme
- Sacha Kumaria, is the Stockholm Network's Assistant Director.
- Peter Nolan is the Stockholm Network Director of Environmental Affairs.
- Terry O'Dwyer, Manager, Health and Welfare programme
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
External links
- Corporate Europe Observatory, "Covert industry funding fuels the expansion of radical rightwing EU think tanks", July 2005.
- Paul Staines, "You want policy? In cash?", The Times (London), 20 December 2005, Page 19.
