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Reform of the strategic aims behindthe Lisbon agenda is required toensure European businesses do notcontinue to lag behind the US and theFar East. Our recent report, BeyondLisbon recommends that a 2007Lisbon Directive is established tomonitor progress and provide moremeasurable goals and timelines.

In March 2000, European Heads of Statesestablished the strategic goal for the EuropeanUnion to become the most competitive anddynamic knowledge-based economy in theworld by 2010. Innovation was recognised to be at the core of this strategy, which today iscommonly referred to as the Lisbon Strategy

or Agenda (depending upon how optimisticallyone chooses to treat it).

Among other things the Lisbon Agendahighlighted three strategic objectives:1. Secure an information society for all,emphasising that businesses and citizens musthave access to an inexpensive, world-classcommunications infrastructure.

2. Establish a European area of research andinnovation (ERA). It also emphasised the need toadequately reward innovation and ideas withinthe new knowledge-based economy, particularlythrough patent protection.

3. Create a friendly environment for starting up and developing innovative businesses,especially SMEs.

Unfortunately, seven years later it seems that theEU has yet to produce the anticipated outcomes.

The European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) of2005 concludes that “based on a set ofcomparable data for 16 indicators the US andJapan are still far ahead of the EU25.

The innovation gap between the EU and theother blocs has increased specifically in the areaof public R&D expenditures and exports ofhigh-tech products. Not only did the EU notsecure its Lisbon Agenda objective of 3% ofGDP for research, but also the EU level ofspending on R&D remains substantially lowercompared to the US and Japan.

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SARKOZY’S FRANCE:GREAT EXPECTATIONS

If the term “rupture”, used extensivelyby president-elect Nicolas Sarkozyduring his campaign, carries any weight,and if he is set on delivering on hispromises, the months ahead will bebusy. Unlike 1981 when FrançoisMitterrand was elected, the rupturetoday comes from socialism.

Market reform in France is long overdue.Citizens must be free to choose between publicand private suppliers of education, health careand retirement benefits. Sarkozy’s victory givessome encouraging indications that French votersare ready for reform, provided this is carried outwith proper methodological consideration ofvested interests.

The new president is far from being a freemarket champion, but he is open to new ideasand has repeatedly come out in favour of“pragmatism”. He would do well to honour hispledges by considering market transformation as a part of the programme for his first 100days, during which he has promised swift actionto get the French back to work.

The following four points summarise the most urgent reforms, which should also beSarkozy’s goals:

1 – Liberating work and entrepreneurship The first priority is to liberalise the labourmarket to enable a lasting structural decrease

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of how the EU is doing when it comes to intellectual property, competition andinnovation. It concludes that a narrow set ofLisbon goals are more likely to succeed.Wedebated the issue at the latest Amigo Societymeeting in Brussels with Alain Mouton, Editor of Trends magazine, Pia-Noora Kauppi, FinnishMEP and VP of the Enterprise branch of theEPP-ED group and our Research Director and author of the report, Dr Meir Pugatch in the chair.

Finally, in this issue, we welcome on board our new Research Officer, Helen Davison whohas joined us to work on the Energy andEnvironment programme, after a successfulinternship period at the Network.

This year the Stockholm Network isdelighted to be celebrating its 10thanniversary. Looking back over adecade of European public policy, it is impossible not to be struck by therise in growth and influence of themarket-oriented think tanks. Fromour early days conducting small policyroundtables, when the concept ofhaving a think tank member in Spainor eastern Europe seemed remote,we have seen the network flourish inall sorts of places, even at times inthe face of Government oppositionand a very tough environment for fundraising.

As the Eye on Europe goes to press we arelooking at a new sort of Europe emerging.Tony Blair has stepped down as Prime Ministerof Britain, and the Conservatives areexperiencing a revival; in France, NicolasSarkozy won the presidential election for thecentre-right, and Angela Merkel and FredrikReinfeldt are leading new reform debates inGermany and Sweden.

In this issue, and future issues, the Eye will beturning its focus to a central theme, looking inparticular at one country or region of Europeand asking what the future holds for market-oriented reform.This time, Stockholm NetworkResearch Fellow, Jacob Arfwedson, a nativeSwede but long-time resident of Paris, takes along look at France’s new president and askswhether things have only changed in order toremain the same. Elsewhere we profile a rangeof our French member think tanks and look atwhat they plan to do to help shape theparameters of the debate on France’s future.

More widely across the EU, debate continueson the state of innovation and economicgrowth. Our new online publication, BeyondLisbon, was launched to address the question

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in unemployment.This entails a substantialreduction of the fiscal and regulatory burdenwhich has hampered private sector growth for decades. It also means trimming a bloated public sector.

Reducing the number of civil servants can onlybe implemented through positive schemes inwhich cutbacks are compensated. Redundanciescan and should be accomplished through pay-offs on the one hand, and on the other atransparent scheme to communicate that therelevant public service will no longer employpeople under the previous conditions. Secondly,new employees (wherever feasible) will be hiredunder specific contractual conditions for a limitedperiod.This also means making senior civilservants personally responsible by introducingdecentralised budgets and enforceableperformance targets.

2 – Welfare reformLiberating the health consumer means enforcingevery citizen’s right to choose their own providerof both services and insurance.This right isguaranteed by European legislation, but has sofar been opposed by French courts. Sarkozyshould act to end this situation, and also toreinsert health into the EU Directive on Servicesin order to facilitate the emergence of a genuineEuropean health market as the true guarantor of

Our companies are missing out becauseinnovation is not being supported andencouraged in the same way as other countries.With growing competition from places like India

and China, European companies need to bebest placed to perform.

Companies already have to contend withburdensome regulation in their country oforigin.The EU should be developing policiesand approaches which help companies, notprovide further hurdles. Let’s support theamazing talent and innovation that Europeancompanies have to offer.We must strengthenEU levels of protection of European ideas.

Finally, the EU should be brave enough tounderstand that although the sentiment wasright, they got it wrong with the Lisbon Agenda.It needs to be more focused in order toachieve its goals and changing it now to ensureit is successful should be the priority, not savingface for those that put it together.

quality, thanks to competition between providers.This complements the right of every EU citizento seek care in another member country whichhis country of residence cannot ensure.

In terms of retirement, pensions may only besaved by introducing personal responsibility, alsofavoured by the French in view of the substantialgrowth of private health and life insurance inrecent years.To consolidate and recognise thisdevelopment, the new government shouldintroduce private accounts for health andretirement (as has been done in Chile,Singapore, and Sweden).

3 – Public monopoliesFrance has long resisted opening its publicmonopolies, be they electricity, gas, postal ortelecoms, to competition. Union opposition is the greatest hurdle, but it may also becleared by offering compensation rather thanprovoking conflicts.

The new government should devise a carefulplan for buying back privileges from EDF andGDF (the electricity and gas monopolies), therailways and other state-owned utilities.Considering that the railway budget deficitequals that of the health insurance, widespreadcommunication with taxpayers should behandled in the same vein.

4 – Education, research and innovationThe French model of state education has long

ceased to be an archetype, be it for teachers,pupils or parents. Introducing a voucher systemthrough which parents are free to choose andwhere funding follows the student, schools arefree to manage their staff and their curriculum is the solution, as seen in Sweden.

Similarly, state universities should be free toadopt an autonomous status, and eventually the right to opt out of the public systemaltogether. Increased private financing andmarket adjustment would also help to reversethe brain-drain which has badly afflicted Frenchacademia in the past decades. Facingglobalisation, France’s comparative advantagelies in high-tech industries, nurtured by topuniversities. But these depend on retaining thebest graduates and researchers to securefuture intellectual property achievements.

Examples of successful market reform abound.Opening up public services to competition andimplementing the freedom to choose areuniversal principles which have been embracedby citizens wherever tried.

The new government should drop any prejudiceagainst contemplating foreign experiences andadapt the best solutions to suit the Frenchcontext. It is time to put an end to l’exceptionFrançaise in order to turn France into anexceptional example of freedom and prosperity.

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The EU is also lagging behind the US in terms of scientific output especially with regards tocitations of academic research. Here the US iswell ahead of the EU (40 citations perpopulation in the US compared with 23citations per population in the EU 15).

OECD data also suggests that the EU is laggingbehind the US and Japan in patenting activities.The share of patents per million population inEU 15 stood at 43.3 patents compared with57.7 patents in the US and 92.3 in Japan.

So how did it all go wrong?To put it bluntly, the whole approach of theLisbon Agenda has been too grand. It has lackedthe finesse to deal with any of the more intricateaspects of the problem, yet it also lacks thestrength to convince state governments of theimportance of its mission.This has led toinnovation being stifled due to a sluggish EUwhile other economies take the lead.The LisbonAgenda is quite simply failing: instead it needs a more strategic goal and a concrete timelineto ensure that goal is achieved.

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The Fondation pour l’innovationpolitique (Fondapol), based in Paris,is a think tank founded in 2004 andrecognised as a public service bodythat same year.The Fondapol is anon-partisan interdisciplinary forumwhich aims to influence the politicaldebate in France by suggesting newstrategies and new structures and bymobilising public opinion around newideas in order to make them a reality.

WHAT THEY DOThe Fondapol believes first and foremost infreedom and individual initiative. It believes inpatience and independence. Responsibleinnovation takes time, contemplation, conflict,good advice and support from all sides.TheFoundation observes and recommends thefollowing methods of policy development: beforeinitiating any proposal: do an internationalcomparison, some field research and hold anopen debate. Fondapol encourages the audacityto dissent when necessary, but ultimately favoursrealistic proposals (those with legal validity,compatibility with standards, and with anopportunity of building political support).

WHAT THEY HAVE DONERelying on more than 100 advisers andcorresponding members from a wide range ofbackgrounds, the Foundation seeks to promotepolitical innovation in three areas: society,education and Europe. Its research focuses ondemographic changes, self-employment, newforms of active citizenship, globalisation,European civil society, European policy in co-development, European budgetary and fiscalissues, and institutional reform of the EU.Theseissues are explored in short ‘points of view’,policy papers and extended scientific workingstudies.The Foundation hosts a variety ofconferences and seminars on all these issues.

In spring 2007 the Foundation published a pan-European study “Europeans facing globalisation”which is a wider reflection on the developmentof European civil societies.The aim of the studywas threefold: to understand the perception of

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globalisation in EU states; to investigate to whatextent the debate on globalisation highlights thepoints of convergence and divergence between thenational political debates; and to determine whatare the possible responses European citizensexpect from their own state and from the EU interms of regulation of globalisation.

Since 2006 the Foundation has published thejournal 2050, which conveys the conviction thatFrance has always made an impact on Europeand on the world because of the talents of itspeople, its penchant for universality and becauseof its cultural and intellectual enthusiasm. Itseditorial policy consists of offering politicalanalysts a platform in which to express theirviews.

FORTHCOMING PLANS ANDPUBLICATIONSThe Europe Department of the Foundation isplanning to publish a series of papers on theeffects of globalisation on European publicpolicies; on the Europeanisation process of theEU neighbour countries; and on the promotionof the European common interest ininternational relations (EU policy towards theUSA, Russia, North Africa and Asia).

In the social field the Foundation will soonpublish the results of a study on young people’sattitudes in Europe, as well as various policypapers on the ‘life-long learning’ process, andemployment mobility.

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The Institute usually organises 3 seminarsduring the summer in July, August andSeptember. Summer break makes it possible forthe faculty members to come and lecture forus. Most of them are very skilled and well-known professors from all over the world whobelieve in the ideas and in the goal of theInstitute and who are taking some time to joinus to provide some wonderful lectures of avery high quality. It is a great opportunity forEuropean students to experience the Americanway of teaching and for American students tomeet with the European way of learning. It isalso a way to discover Western and EasternEurope, even for other Europeans.

This year, IES-Europe will be arranging seminarsin Belgium, Romania and Germany, as well as itstraditional summer university in Aix at the endof August.

WHAT THEY BELIEVEA free society is a society which is open toexchange and which believes that exchangecreates value. At IES-Europe, we try to draw allthe benefits from this wonderful trait of humannature. Hence, we strive to promote exchangeamong students from different parts of Europeand beyond Europe, as well as exchange

The aim of the Institute for EconomicStudies – Europe, based in Paris, is toeducate about and promote researchon the workings of a society of freeand responsible individuals. Since 1989,the Institute (a non-profit organisationregistered in the state of Virginia) hasdiscovered and supported hundreds ofoutstanding students, as well as youngscholars who share an interest inexploring and applying the principlesof classical liberalism.

In carrying out this mission, the staff ofIES has relied upon a network of greatclassical liberal scholars from variousfields as well as various Institutesengaged in similar endeavours (IHS,FEE, Acton Institute,Timbro, EconomicThinking, Cato Institute and more).

WHAT THEY DOThe IES uses various tools, such as offeringfellowships for outstanding students, organisingessay contests, supervising the translation ofclassical books or editing academic journals, topromote awareness of classical liberalism. Itsmain activity has traditionally been organisingsummer seminars at which new students areoffered a first contact with the economic,historical, and philosophical arguments insupport of free markets and limited government.

Hundreds of students have already beeninvolved with the Institute’s programmes.Theparticipants are junior, senior, or graduatestudents and recent graduates but they are alsoyoung scholars or entrepreneurs.They usuallydescribe it as a week which had a tremendousimpact on their intellectual life and which hasproved helpful for careers in academies, law,journalism, and other idea-oriented fields. It isalso a great experience from a personal pointof view, since for a week, students and facultymembers, coming from everywhere in theworld, get to live together, to speak and todebate.They get to learn from each other andare in contact with different cultures, educationand ways of life.

between students and faculty members and,of course, between scholars from differentfields. Our “Europe & Liberty” seminars or oursummer university are wonderful means forcultural exchange. Our student seminars offer a unique moment for sharing differentexperiences and becoming friends.

As a result, IES-Europe has been able todevelop a strong and active network ofstudents and professors, with special links with Romania, Bulgaria and France. For moststudents, the first encounter with IES was theopportunity for a new start in their intellectualjourney. A good number of those students arenow working for free market think tanks or inacademia. Some have even started their ownInstitutes.The intellectual and friendly spirit ofour seminars is so much appreciated by all that,five years ago, some students decided to createan IES alumni association, LiNK (which standsfor LIberal NetworK).

IES-Europe’s strategy is to change society usinga bottom-up approach: rather than trying toconvince policy makers they focus our effortson young people, and particularly on studentsand young scholars.They are moved by thefaith that good education and careful reasoningcan change the world.

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The Institut Montaigne is anindependent, non-partisan think tankfounded in 2000 by Claude Bébéar. Itbrings together people from differentbackgrounds (business leaders, seniorcivil servants, academics andrepresentatives of civil society), witha wide range of experience, so as tofoster free thinking and explore ideas,free from any economic or politicalpreconceptions.

PHILOSOPHY AND KEY GOALSThe Institut Montaigne has two key objectives.First, to have a constructive influence on publicdebate, providing input with original andpragmatic ideas. In France, discussions of publicissues are too often dominated by politicalparties and public officials, while civil society isbypassed and rarely given proper consideration.The Institut Montaigne therefore intends toprovide a forum for players in civil society whoare endeavouring to break away from standardattitudes and approaches.

Its second objective is to help shape publicpolicy with a view to improving both theeconomic and social environment in France.The Institute actively promotes the findings of its research, the goal being to have theoperational recommendations presented at the end of all its publications endorsed bypolicymakers. Regular contact is thereforemaintained with public authorities (e.g. inparliament and government), regardless of the political persuasion of the government.

Its highly diversified funding is from privatesources only (more than seventy privatecompanies and some 150 individuals). Nosingle contribution accounts for more than 2% of the budget, allowing the Institute to be fully independent.

WHAT THEY DOThe Institut Montaigne operates with associateresearchers and working groups, developingand circulating concrete long-term proposals to address major issues facing society today.Its work focuses on three areas of research:

Moreover, the Institut Montaigne has, as thefirst think tank in France, contributed to thedevelopment of 31 ‘clips’ (short televisionprogrammes) called Ideas for Tomorrow,each of them presenting one of the Institute’sproposals on prime time on French televisionevery evening during five weeks. All these clips can be viewed on the blogwww.desideespourdemain.fr .

The Institute also organises chats featuringpoliticians and other prominent figures on aregular basis and has actively participated in the recent presidential campaign.

FORTHCOMING ACTIVITIESIn the coming months the Institute will publishreports and policy papers on, among otherthings, intellectual property rights, theresocialisation of juvenile delinquents, and thereform of the French healthcare system. Severalmore working groups will also be launched inthe near future. Moreover, the InstitutMontaigne is a partner of the 2007 OECDforum on Innovation, Growth and Equity.

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Social Cohesion and Social Mobility,Modernising the Public Sector and Economicand European Strategy.

Furthermore, the Institute regularly organisesdebates open to the general public, includingLibres Echanges panel discussions, which attractan audience of about 350 to 400 people everymonth. Over recent months, guest panellistshave included ministers, Europeancommissioners and other prominent figures. Itis also joint organiser or partner in a number ofmeetings held with other French and Europeanorganisations and think tanks. In addition, theDirector of the Institute, Philippe Manière, hostsa weekly talk show on BFM (Business Radio).

WHAT THEY HAVE DONESince it was founded in 2000, the InstitutMontaigne has published about fifty reports,policy papers and briefing papers. Recentpublications include: First Erasmus, now Amicus –The case for European-level universal civic service,What energy policy for the European Union?,Breaking free from French social immobility, andEnabling French universities to become leaders inworld competition. All the Institute’s publicationsare available to download onwww.institutmontaigne.org

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Modèle Libéral Français) was published, outliningthe history of French liberal economic thoughtfrom the mid 18th century to the present.

WHAT THEY BELIEVEThe Institute’s work is not restricted toeconomics, but aims at rediscovering andrestating the philosophical, legal and culturalfoundations of the European tradition ofindividual liberty and rule of law.

Since its inception, Euro 92 has endeavoured to translate and publish studies from otherthink tanks to disseminate public policyexperiences in other countries, on topics suchas privatisation, deregulation, welfare reform,education, and the environment.

Today, the Institute organises weeklyconferences on current affairs. Recent eventshave included conferences and seminars onSwedish welfare reform, financial markets,economic history, and biotechnology.

Quarterly breakfast meetings invite captains ofindustry and entrepreneurs to a conference oninternational finance developments chaired byCharles Gave, president of GaveKal, a globalfinancial research firm (Hong Kong).

The Institut Euro 92 was founded in1988 by Alain Madelin, former ministerof Finance and MP, to bring togetherentrepreneurs and economic decision-makers to consider France’s globalcompetitiveness in view of theEuropean Single Market. Foundingmembers included both large Frenchcorporations and small businesses.

WHAT THEY HAVE DONEWith the fall of the Berlin Wall, Euro 92switched its focus to the emerging new Europeand founded a research institute in Moscowwhere most of the members eventuallyentered the first post-communist government,among them Yegor Gaidar, the young primeminister. Euro 92 also worked closely with theCzech prime minister Vaclav Klaus and with theOpen Society Fund on privatisation in Centraland Eastern Europe.

A major topic at the outset was ‘Micropoliticsand competitive government’ in collaborationwith the Adam Smith Institute (London) toexplore and promote alternative solutions inpublic policy in the context of privatisation ofgovernment services. Euro 92 was also the firstFrench think tank to initiate a major debate onEurope’s institutional future, featuring NobelLaureates James Buchanan and Maurice Allais.

An international conference on Africandevelopment was organised in late 1992,featuring representatives of francophonecountries, including government ministers andcivil society organisations.

In 1992, Euro 92 set up the InternationalCentre for Research on Environmental Issuesto provide intellectual ammunition in thedebate following the first Rio Summit onsustainable development.Topics coveredincluded waste management, marine resources,impact studies, agricultural water pollution,recycling, etc. and speakers included prominentrepresentatives of major partner organisations(including the Reason Foundation, CEI, AtlasFoundation, and FREE).

In 1997, after a two-year series of conferencesat the Sorbonne, a book (Aux Sources du

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Policy IssuesThe Network is a forum for sharing, exchangingand developing pan-European research and bestpractice. Interested in ideas which stimulateeconomic growth and help people to helpthemselves, we promote and raise awareness ofpolicies which create the social and economicconditions for a free society.These include:

Reforming European welfare states andcreating a more flexible labour market.Updating European pension systems toempower individuals.Ensuring more consumer-driven healthcare,through reform of European health systemsand markets.Encouraging an informed debate onintellectual property rights as an incentive to innovate and develop new knowledge inthe future, whilst ensuring wide public accessto such products in the present.Reforming European energy markets toensure the most beneficial balance betweeneconomic growth and environmental quality.Emphasising the benefits of globalisation,trade and competition and creating anunderstanding of free market ideas andinstitutions

What do we doWe conduct pan-European research on, andcreate a wider audience for, market-orientedpolicy ideas in Europe. Our website contains a comprehensive directory of European freemarket think tanks and thinkers.We advertiseforthcoming events (our own and those of

partner organisations) and facilitate publicationexchange and translation between think tanks.We also post regular news flashes and updateson European think tanks and their activities.

When was the Stockholm Networkfounded?The Stockholm Network was founded in 1997by Helen Disney, a British journalist and policyspecialist.The spread of market-oriented thinktanks and independent policy researchinstitutes across Europe from the mid-1990sonwards, created a niche for a network hub,capable of providing a bird’s eye view of thepolicy environment.The network’s early aims,which have continued to the present day, wereto find an efficient method of connecting like-minded policymakers and thinkers; toencourage collaboration on joint researchprojects in order to share the most successfulpolicy innovations and arguments more widely;and to ensure a wider audience and a moreco-ordinated approach to the dissemination of market-oriented ideas within Europe andbeyond its borders.

Who funds the StockholmNetwork?The Network is funded by a wide range ofindividuals, corporations and foundations.A mixture of for-profit and not-for-profitorganisations, some SN supporters are globalenterprises, while others are small or medium in size. Subscriptions from individuals, commercialenterprises, and a range of NGOs includingother think tanks make up the bulk of our funding.We also derive a small incomefrom the sale of our publications and researchmaterials to the public, bookshops, governmentagencies and private companies. Corporatesubscribers come from a wide range of sectorsthat currently include information technology,energy, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, public affairsand venture capitalism. Subscribers do not have a veto over the outcome of Stockholm Networkresearch or any influence over its media output.

Why should I support theStockholm Network and its work?The Stockholm Network is in the business ofcreating in Europe an intellectual climate inwhich human prosperity and your organisationcan thrive.We strive to maintain the bestknowledge of European market-oriented thinktanks, ideas and thinkers, directing you swiftly tothe expert or organisation you need.We alreadyhave a proven track record in influencing thepolicy debate and our network and influence isgrowing all the time.

How could you or yourorganisation benefit from SNmembership?

Expand your database by meeting newcontacts from across EuropeReceive weekly Stockholm Network emailupdates and quarterly newslettersReceive Stockholm Network Books andPublicationsGet invitations to Stockholm NetworkEvents and Activities

Would you like to join theStockholm Network?Please contact us on +44 20 7354 8888 oremail info@stockholm-network.org

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The Stockholm Network is the leadingpan-European think tank and market-oriented network. It is a one-stopshop for organisations seeking towork with Europe’s brightestpolicymakers and thinkers.Today, theStockholm Network brings togetherover 120 market-oriented think tanksfrom across Europe, giving us thecapacity to deliver local reformmessages and locally-tailored globalmessages across the EU and beyond.

Combined, the think tanks in ournetwork publish thousands of op-eds in the high quality European press,produce many hundreds of publications,and hold a wide range of conferences,seminars and meetings.As such, theStockholm Network and its memberorganisations influence many millions of Europeans every year.

“We face a broad range ofeconomic challenges over thenext decade. Learning from theexperiences of market-basedreform elsewhere in Europeand the world can help us setthe best course for Britain.The Stockholm Network is an invaluable resource in facingthat challenge.”Matthew Hancock, Economic Advisor to ShadowChancellor George Osborne MP

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JACOB ARFWEDSON has worked asinternational press editor at the French PrimeMinister’s Information Office; director of eventsand publications at the French free-market thinktank Institut EURO 92; research director at theWorld Association of Newspapers; managingeditor of the website Executip.com; andconsultant in media relations at the OECD.He is currently research fellow at the StockholmNetwork and a freelance writer and consultantto think tanks in Europe and the USA.

HELEN DAVISON joined the StockholmNetwork in May 2007 after a successfulinternship period. She is Research Officer on the energy and environment programme.

Helen holds a first class bachelors degree in Politics from the University of Nottinghamwhere she was awarded Best Dissertation prize for her study of civil service reform in the Baltic States. After graduating she spent 6 months travelling around China and SouthEast Asia.

Most recently Helen worked as a researcher on a series of papers on politicisation and corruptionin the civil services of the Eastern European EUmember states. She has worked as a ProjectResearch Assistant for the Refugee AwarenessProject and as a Fundraiser for ChildLine.

HELEN DISNEY is Chief Executive of theStockholm Network. Her background is in publicpolicy and the media. Formerly an editorialwriter for The Times and an editorial writer andcommentator for the Daily Express, Helencontinues to write regularly on a range of publicpolicy topics and has contributed to newspapersand magazines including The Times, the FT,Newsweek, the Daily Express and Sunday Express,Public Finance, and Public Service Magazine. Helenhas run the Stockholm Network since 1997,and is a founding member of the organisation.

PAUL DOMJAN is Energy Fellow at theStockholm Network. He has previously servedas the first Energy Security Advisor to the USEuropean Command where he developed anenergy security strategy for the US EuropeanCommand for Europe, Eurasia, and Africa.Mr. Domjan is currently a British Marshall Scholarat Wolfson College, University of Oxford with aspecialty in the political and economic geographyof oil and gas producing countries.

DR TIM EVANS is the Stockholm Network’sDirector of Development. He works across the spectrum of policy issues to ensure thatthe Stockholm Network continues to promoteits work and develop support across a range ofconstituencies and interests. A former Presidentand Director General of the Centre for theNew Europe (2002-2005), he also served aschief economic and political advisor to theSlovak Prime Minister, Dr. Jan Carnogursky,between 1991-92.

SHANE FRITH is the Network’s ManagingDirector. Shane provides senior managementand leadership for the organisation in achievingits strategic aims. Shane has worked for anumber of London based think-tanks, includingReform, Open Europe and the Centre forPolicy Studies, since moving from his nativeNew Zealand. He is also the founder andDirector of Doctors’ Alliance, a pan-Europeannetwork of medical professionals seeking betterways to deliver healthcare.

SIMON MOORE joined The StockholmNetwork in early 2006 following thecompletion of a successful internship period.In addition to administrative work and websitemaintenance, Simon edited Beyond the Borders,a companion piece to The StockholmNetwork’s State of the Union publication, he isalso the editor of Eye on Europe and compilesthe Network’s Weekly Update e-newsletter.

KATIE PERRIOR is the Media Director of theStockholm Network. She joined us in July 2005to help promote our work in the British,European and International media. She is theco-founder and director of The Research Shop,an independent media agency which specialisesin out-sourced, ad-hoc media research. Mostrecently, she has worked for ITV and Channel 4News, and is a local councillor, and ConservativeSpokesman for Community Safety, for theLondon borough of Bexley.

DR MEIR PUGATCH is the StockholmNetwork’s Director of Research and heads the intellectual property and competitionprogramme. He is based at the School ofPublic Health, University of Haifa in Israel,where he is a lecturer on intellectual propertypolicy, management and the exploitation ofknowledge assets and entrepreneurship.Dr Pugatch is also a guest lecturer at theDepartment of International Relations, HebrewUniversity Jerusalem, where he lectures on theinternational political economy of trade policy.

CARA WALKER is responsible forcommunicating the work of the StockholmNetwork, mainly through the coordination and management of the Network’s events and publications. In addition to this, she isresponsible for press and media coordination.After graduating with a 2:1 in Ancient Historyfrom Bristol University, she was appointed asIain Duncan Smith’s Constituency Secretary.She then went on to become the Director ofthe Atlantic Bridge, a free market transatlanticthink tank.

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The Stockholm Network is theleading pan-European think tank andmarket-oriented network. Spanningalmost 40 countries and over 120think tanks, our unique organisationhas the capacity to deliver localmessages and locally-tailored globalmessages across the EU and beyond.

Through our publications, weekly newsletter,and special events, members are able toexchange ideas and make an impact on a widerange of public policy topics and ideas.

If you know of a new organisation you think would benefit from StockholmNetwork membership, please contact ouroffice at info@stockholm-network.org and let us know.

“Too many of Western Europe’seconomies are sclerotic and indesperate need of reform.TheStockholm Network plays acrucial role in linking Europe’smarket-orientated think tanks,promoting the ideas that areessential if Europe is to have abrighter future”. Nick Herbert MP

EYE ON EUROPE

11SUMMER 2007

1 Adam Smith Institutewww.adamsmith.orgUnited Kingdom

2 Adam Smith Societywww.adamsmith.itItaly

3 Adriatic Institute for Public Policy www.adriaticinstitute.orgCroatia

4 Albanian Liberal Institutewww.liberalb.org Albania

5 Anders Chydenius Foundationwww.chydenius.netFinland

6 Association for Liberal Thinkingwww.liberal-dt.org.trTurkey

7 Association for Modern Economywww.ame.org.mkMacedonia

8 Avenir Suissewww.avenir-suisse.chSwitzerland

9 Bulgarian Society for Individual Libertywww.libertarium.netBulgaria

10 Captuswww.captus.nuSweden

11 Causa Liberalwww.causaliberal.netPortugal

12 Centre for Economic Developmentwww.ced.bgBulgaria

13 Centre for Economic Developmentwww.cphr.skSlovakia

14 Centre for Economics and Politicscepin.czCzech Republic

15 Centre for Entrepreneurship and Economic Developmentwww.visit-ceed.orgMontenegro

16 Centre for European Policy www.cep.euGermany

17 Centre for European Reformwww.cer.org.ukUnited Kingdom

18 Centre for Institutional Analysis andDevelopmentwww.cadi.roRomania

19 Centre for Liberal Strategieswww.cls-sofia.orgBulgaria

20 Centre for Liberal-Democratic Studieswww.clds.org.yuSerbia

21 Centre for Policy Studieswww.cps.org.ukUnited Kingdom

22 Centre for Political Thoughtwww.omp.org.plPoland

23 Centre for Research into Post-CommunistEconomieswww.crce.org.ukUnited Kingdom

24 Centre for Social and Economic Researchwww.case.com.plPoland

25 Centre for the New Europewww.cne.orgBelgium

26 Centre for the Study of Democracywww.csd.bgBulgaria

27 Centro Einaudiwww.centroeinaudi.itItaly

28 Centrum im.Adama Smithawww.smith.pl Poland

29 CEPOSwww.cepos.dk Denmark

30 Cercles Liberauxwww.cerclesliberaux.comFrance

31 Civic Institutewww.obcinst.czCzech Republic

32 Civitawww.civita.noNorway

33 Civitaswww.civitas.org.ukUnited Kingdom

34 Club 2015www.club2015.orgBosnia

35 Conservative Institute of M. R. Stefanikwww.institute.sk Slovakia

36 Council on Public Policywww.council.uni-bayreuth.deGermany

37 E.G.West Centre UKwww.ncl.ac.uk/egwestUnited Kingdom

38 ECIPEwww.ecipe.orgBelgium

39 Economic Policy Research Institutewww.epri-macedonia.org Macedonia

40 Ekome (Society for Social and EconomicStudies)www.ekome.grGreece

41 Eudoxawww.eudoxa.seSweden

42 Euro 92www.euro92.comFrance

43 European Ideas Networkwww.epp-ed.org/europeanideasnetworkBelgium

44 EVAwww.eva.fiFinland

45 F.A. Hayek Institutewww.hayek-institut.atAustria

46 FAESwww.fundacionfaes.org Spain

47 Fondation pour l’innovation politique www.fondapol.orgFrance

48 Foundation for Market Economywww.fme.huHungary

49 Friedrich August von Hayek Stiftungwww.hayek-stiftung.deGermany

50 Frédéric Bastiat Stichtingwww.bastiatstichting.nlThe Netherlands

51 FREE (Forum Rozwoju EdukacjiEkonomicznej) www.free.org.plPoland

52 Free Market Centrewww.fmc.org.yuSerbia

53 Free Minds AssociationAzerbaijan

54 Friedrich Naumann Stiftungwww.fnst.deGermany

55 Friedrich von Hayek Gesellschaftwww.hayek.deGermany

56 Fundacio Catalunya Obertawww.catalunyaoberta.netSpain

57 Gdansk Institute for Market Economicswww.ibngr.edu.plPoland

58 Hamburg Institute for InternationalEconomicswww.hwwi.orgGermany

59 Hayek Foundationwww.hayek.ruRussia

60 Health Consumer Powerhousewww.healthpowerhouse.com Belgium

61 Health Policy Institutewww.hpi.skSlovakia

62 Health Reform.czwww.healthreform.czCzech Republic

63 Hellenic Leadership Institutewww.hli.grGreece

64 iFRAP (French Institute for Research into Public Administration)www.ifrap.orgFrance

65 INEKOwww.ineko.sk/english Slovakia

66 Institución Futuro www.institucionfuturo.orgSpain

67 Institut Constant de Rebecquewww.institutconstant.chSwitzerland

68 Institut Economique Molinariwww.institutmolinari.orgBelgium

69 Institut Hayekwww.fahayek.orgBelgium

70 Institut Montaignewww.institutmontaigne.orgFrance

71 Institut Turgotwww.turgot.org France

72 Institute for Economic Studies Europewww.ies-europe.org France

73 Institute for Free Enterprisewww.unternehmerische-freiheit.deGermany

74 Institute for Free Societywww.isloboda.skSlovakia

75 Institute for Market Economicswww.ime-bg.orgBulgaria

76 Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognosiswww.isspm.org Montenegro

77 Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Securitywww.itdis.org Hungary

78 Institute of Economic Affairswww.iea.org.ukUnited Kingdom

79 Institute of Economic and Social Studieswww.iness.skSlovakia

80 Instituto Juan de Marianawww.juandemariana.org Spain

81 Instytut Globalizacjiwww.globalizacja.orgPoland

82 Instytut Liberalno-Konserwatywnywww.ilk.lublin.plPoland

83 International Policy Networkwww.policynetwork.netUnited Kingdom

84 Interticwww.intertic.orgItaly

85 Istituto Acton www.acton.org Italy

86 Istituto Bruno Leoniwww.brunoleoni.itItaly

87 Jerusalem Instiute for Market Studieswww.jims-israel.orgIsrael

88 Liberales Instituteng.libinst.chSwitzerland

89 Liberalni Institutewww.libinst.czCzech Republic

90 Libertarian Alliancewww.libertarian.co.ukUnited Kingdom

91 Libertaswww.libertas.dkDenmark

92 Liberté Chériewww.liberte-cherie.com France

93 Liberty Ideaswww.liberalismus.atAustria

94 Lithuanian Free Market Institutewww.freema.orgLithuania

95 Ludwig von Mises Institute Europewww.vonmisesinstitute-europe.orgBelgium

96 Ludwig von Mises Institute Polandwww.mises.plPoland

97 Ludwig von Mises Institute Romaniawww.misesromania.org Romania

98 M.E.S.A. 10www.mesa10.skSlovakia

99 Magna Carta Foundationwww.magna-carta.itItaly

100 New Economic Schoolwww.economics.geGeorgia

101 New Social Market Economy Foundationwww.insm.deGermany

102 Nova Civitaswww.novacivitas.orgBelgium

103 Nova Res Publicawww.novarespublica.orgItaly

104 Nurses for Reformwww.nursesforreform.comUK

105 Open Europewww.openeurope.org.ukUnited Kingdom

106 Open Republic Institutewww.openrepublic.orgIreland

107 Poder Limitadowww.poderlimitado.orgSpain

108 Policy Exchangewww.policyexchange.org.ukUnited Kingdom

109 Policy Institutewww.policyinstitute.infoUK

110 Politeiawww.politeia.co.ukUnited Kingdom

111 Project Empowermentwww.project-empowerment.orgUnited Kingdom

112 Ratio Institutewww.ratioinstitutet.nuSweden

113 Reformwww.reform.co.uk United Kingdom

114 Riinvest Institute for DevelopmentResearch www.riinvestinstitute.orgKosovo

115 Romania Think Tankwww.thinktankromania.roRomania

116 RSE (Centre for Social and EconomicResearch)www.rse.isIceland

117 Sauvegarde Retraiteswww.sauvegarde-retraites.orgFrance

118 SME Unionwww.sme-union.czCzech Republic

119 Sobieski Institutewww.sobieski.org.plPoland

120 Social Affairs Unitwww.socialaffairsunit.org.ukUnited Kingdom

121 Stiftung Ordnungspolitikwww.sop-cep.deGermany

122 Stiftung Marktwirtschaftwww.stiftung-marktwirtschaft.deGermany

123 Taxpayers’ Alliancewww.taxpayersalliance.comUnited Kingdom

124 The Copenhagen Institutewww.coin.dk Denmark

125 The F.A. Hayek Foundationwww.hayek.sk Slovakia

126 Thomas More Institutewww.institut-thomas-more.orgBelgium

127 Timbrowww.timbro.seSweden

128 Venezie Institutewww.venezie.orgItaly

129 Veritaswww.veritas-iceland.comIceland

130 Walter Eucken Institutwww.eucken.de Germany

131 Work For Allwww.workforall.orgLeuven

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10th AnniversaryTo mark its 10th anniversary the Stockholm Networkis holding a number of events this year tocommemorate its work and the work of its memberthink tanks.

At this autumn’s European Resource Bank meeting, theNetwork will host a debate and drinks reception on thefuture of the European social model, asking “wheredoes Europe go from here?” Later on in the year, wewill also be throwing a party and awards ceremony tomark the achievements of the most innovative policyentrepreneurs in our Network. More information willbe available shortly but in the meantime, keep oninnovating and watch this space for more details of the‘Think Tank Oscars’.

The Fourth Resource BankEurope will be hosted by CADI(Centre for Institutional Analysisand Development) in Bucharest,Romania, Sept. 13-16, 2007.

Healthy IPRsStockholm Network’s newest publication on intellectualproperty rights (IPRs), exposes readers to the centralissues currently taking place in the field of pharmaceuticalIPRs. As an edited volume, the book covers issues acrossthe board, with articles from distinguished scholars,policymakers and practitioners.

It is no secret that pharmaceutical IPRs have been andcontinue to be subject to some serious misconceptionsand disinformation. Opponents describe them as havinga profoundly negative effect on society such as limitingaccess to medicines in developing countries. Indeed,discussions about pharmaceutical IPRs have producedas much (or perhaps even more) heat than substance.

In contrast, it provides comprehensive and fact-based,yet reader-friendly, discussions on the importance andcomplexity of pharmaceutical IPRs by describing someof the contemporary debates taking place in the field.

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