What is the EIN?
The European Ideas Network is an open pan-European think-tank process designed to promote new thinking on the key challenges facing the countries of the European Union. Sponsored by the EPP Group, the largest political group in the European Parliament, the network was launched in the summer of 2002 and has rapidly emerged as an important meeting-point and intellectual cross-roads for the centre-right in European politics.
With an active membership of around 600 policy-makers and opinion-shapers across the European Union, the EIN brings together politicians, businessmen, academics, policy advisers, think tankers, journalists and representatives of civil society who share a common outlook Europe-wide, as well as outside non-party experts and commentators interested in the public policy issues being addressed. The network offers a unique forum in which to develop innovative ideas about the policy challenges facing Europe in the years ahead and to evolve practical solutions to help to address them.
The EIN operates through ten working groups on broad policy questions and a large annual conference - the EIN Summer University - normally held each September. The network also serves as a framework for national think tanks and political foundations of the centre-right to work together at European level. Currently over 40 such organisations are associated with the EIN in this way.
The policy statements contained on this website are generated by working groups within the European Ideas Network. As such, they do not necessarily represent the views of all EIN members, nor are they official positions of the EPP Group which sponsors the network.
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Summer University, Lisbon, 2005 |
With an active membership of around 600 policy-makers and opinion-shapers across the European Union, the EIN brings together politicians, businessmen, academics, policy advisers, think tankers, journalists and representatives of civil society who share a common outlook Europe-wide, as well as outside non-party experts and commentators interested in the public policy issues being addressed. The network offers a unique forum in which to develop innovative ideas about the policy challenges facing Europe in the years ahead and to evolve practical solutions to help to address them.
The EIN operates through ten working groups on broad policy questions and a large annual conference - the EIN Summer University - normally held each September. The network also serves as a framework for national think tanks and political foundations of the centre-right to work together at European level. Currently over 40 such organisations are associated with the EIN in this way.
The policy statements contained on this website are generated by working groups within the European Ideas Network. As such, they do not necessarily represent the views of all EIN members, nor are they official positions of the EPP Group which sponsors the network.