Following the European Summer University and European Ideas Fair in Berlin (September 2004), representatives of centre-right think tanks and political foundations from across the EU met at the initiative of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, to discuss possibilities for future joint action and cooperation. This was the first meeting of its kind, on anything approaching such a scale, ever to be held in Europe.
Around 25 organisations signed a joint declaration in Berlin, committing themselves to work together and support centre-right policy makers. Today, around 45 bodies are now formally or informally associated with this initiative. A list of the think tanks and foundations involved is attached.
The bodies involved invited the European Ideas Network to coordinate their joint activities. They also decided to launch a series of joint Task Forces on major subjects, designed specifically to feed into EIN and other events.
International
Austria
Greece
Italy
Lithuania
Malta
Azad Centre for Political Studies
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Instituto Francisco Sá Carnero
Slovakia
Mecs Laszlo Foundation
Slovenia
Joze Pucnik Institute
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
THINK TANK TASK-FORCES
The think-tanks and foundations work together in joint task forces on areas of common interest. Recent task-foces have included:
Task Force 1 - Trade Policy and External Competitiveness
 TF1 Final Report
Task Force 2 - Human Capital and the knowledge-based Economy
TF2 Final Report
Task Force 3 - European Governance, Institutions and Enlargement
TF3 Final Report
Task Force 4 - Europe and the Near and Middle East
TF4 Final Report
Task Force 5 - Security in Europe
Task Force 6 - Social and Cultural Integration
Task Force 7 - European E-Sociey
TF7 Report
Task Force 1 - Immigration, Integration and Multiculturalism
- Political Academy of ÖVP
TF1 Final Report
Task Force 2 - European Social Models and Economic Reform
- Free Europe Centre
- Mécs László Foundation
Task Force 4 - European Governance and Democracy
- Free Europe Centre
- SPK-Europe
- Azad Centre for Political Studies (co-lead organisation)
- Free Europe Centre
- Azad Centre for Political Studies
TF6 Final Report
Task Force 7 - Think Tanks and Public Policy
- Institute for Negotiation Dynamics
TF7 Final Report
THINK TANKS TASK FORCES IN 2005
In 2005, the think tanks and political foundations associated with the EIN established five Task Forces. Their participants and conclusions are set out below.
Task Force 1: Common Values and Civil Society
Lead organisation: Századvég Foundation (Budapest).
Coordinators: Istvan Stumpf, Tibor Gazso, Gáspár Várkonyi.
Participating organisations: Austrian Institute for European Security Policy (Vienna),
SPK Europe (Latvia), Free Europe Centre (Budapest), Constantinos Karamanlis Institute (Athens).
EIN linkage: EIN WG 8.
Task Force 2: Demographic Change and Immigration
Lead organisation: CDA Research Institute (The Hague).
Coordinators: Ab Klink, Arie van der Veen.
Participating organisations : Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Berlin), Fondation pour l'Innovation politique (Paris), Századvég Foundation (Budapest), Fondation Robert Schuman (Paris), Austrian Institute for European Security Policy (Vienna).
EIN linkage: EIN WG 5.
Task Force 3: Education and Human Capital
Lead organisation: Hanns Seidel Stiftung (Munich).
Coordinator: Susanne Luther.
Participating organisations: József Antall Foundation (Budapest), CEVRO (Prague).
EIN linkage: EIN WG 1.
Read TF3 Executive Summary
Task Force 4: Economic Reform and Competitiveness
Lead organisation: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Berlin).
Coordinator: Michael Borchard.
Participating organisations: MarkedsCentret (Copenhagen), FAES (Madrid), Stiftung für Ordnungspolitik (Freiburg), Free Europe Centre (Budapest), Nova Res Publica Foundation (Milan), Fondation pour l'Innovation politique (Paris), CDA Research Institute (The Hague), Walter Eucken Institute (Freiburg), Fondation Robert Schuman (Paris).
EIN linkage: EIN WGs 3, 6 and 7.
Task Force 5: Transatlantic Relations and International Security
Lead organisation: FAES (Madrid).
Coordinators: Alberto Carnero, Ignacio Fernandez Bargues, Javier Fernández-Lasquetty.
Participating organisations: Austrian Institute for European Security Policy (Vienna), József Antall Foundation (Budapest), Hanns Seidel Stiftung (Munich), CDA Research Institute (The Hague), Magna Carta Foundation (Rome), Fondation Robert Schuman (Paris).
EIN linkage: EIN WGs 4 and 9.
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