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The European Ideas Network is an open
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sponsored by the
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and based in the
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in Brussels. The EIN works as a pan-European policy framework designed to promote new thinking on the key challenges facing the countries of the
European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been ...
. With an active membership of around 3,000 policy-makers and opinion-shapers across the European Union, the EIN brings together foremost MEPs - as these represent the views of the European population, and then politicians, who coming from EU member states are confirmed to be democratically elected, hereafter businessman, academics, policy advisers, think-tankers, journalists and representatives of
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and under the chairmanship of
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. It is prominent in centre-right European politics. The current and third chairman of the EIN is Paulo Rangel, who succeeded
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. Its director is
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aimed at many countries around the world, TAG today brings together a variety of legislators from EU, US, and Canada to cooperate on a wide range of issues that are deemed important to the Transatlantic partners. The co-chairs of TAG are Paulo Rangel for Europe and Congressman Jeff Duncan for US; the co-Secretary Generals are
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. Currently 264 organizations are either directly or indirectly associated with the European Ideas Network. The EIN is the organization in charge of coordinating the joint activities for the entire network.


Framework

The European Ideas Network engages in a variety of activities including seminars and working breakfasts, most notably in the annual "Summer University," to achieve and promote its goals in accordance with the principles outlined under its current policy guidelines. The Summer University is a comprehensive annual gathering that brings together over 450 experts and attendants across the European continent and the globe, including: MEPs, ministers, journalists, EIN network members, academics and other experts, speakers, EPP Group staff, as well as the European Parliament staff. Among the members are figures such as
Carl Bildt Nils Daniel Carl Bildt (born 15 July 1949) is a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994. He was the leader of the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999. Bildt served as Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affair ...
, former Swedish Prime Minister and current Foreign Minister,
Lech Walesa Lech may refer to: People * Lech (name), a name of Polish origin * Lech, the legendary founder of Poland * Lech (Bohemian prince) Products and organizations * Lech (beer), Polish beer produced by Kompania Piwowarska, in Poznań * Lech Poznań ...
, Polish president and
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,
Jacques Santer Jacques Santer (born 18 May 1937) is a Luxembourg politician who served as the 9th President of the European Commission from 1995 to 1999. He served as Finance Minister of Luxembourg from 1979 until 1989, and the 20th Prime Minister of Luxembo ...
, former President of Luxembourg and the
European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body ...
and
Wilfried Martens Wilfried Achiel Emma Martens (; 19 April 1936 – 9 October 2013) was a Belgian politician who served as prime minister of Belgium from 1979 to 1981 and from 1981 to 1992. A member of the Flemish Christian People's Party, during his premiership ...
, former Belgian Prime Minister and President of the
European People's Party The European People's Party (EPP) is a European political party with Christian-democratic, conservative, and liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative member parties. A transnational organisation, it is composed of other political parties. Fo ...
. The European Ideas Network aims to: * Promote new ideas and exchange best practice on how to address the social, economic and foreign policy challenges facing Europe today; * Broaden the vision and experience of policy-makers and opinion-shapers, so that issues are seen in a wider, more global context; * Operate on a deliberately Europe-wide basis, to allow access to and exchange of thinking not always available in a national setting; * Strengthen the collective intellectual resources of, and improve the quality of policy-making within, centre-right politics in Europe; * Involve centre-right think tanks and political foundations more closely in the evolution of policy and offer them a framework in which to cooperate more effectively at European level; * Reach out to people and groups not otherwise involved in party politics, especially by encouraging the younger generation to participate in political argument and debate; * Organise conferences and seminars across Europe, backed up by a conscious strategy of exploiting new technology to promote the exchange of ideas. * Instigating further collaboration on the "Transatlantic Parliamentary Group on Counter Terrorism," an EIN initiative that aims to create a dialogue platform within the West and throughout liberal democracies.


See also

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European People's Party The European People's Party (EPP) is a European political party with Christian-democratic, conservative, and liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative member parties. A transnational organisation, it is composed of other political parties. Fo ...
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European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been ...
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List of Christian democratic parties __NOTOC__ Christian democratic parties are political parties that seek to apply Christian principles to public policy. The underlying Christian democracy movement emerged in 19th-century Europe, largely under the influence of Catholic social te ...


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