Policy Issues

The Network is a forum for sharing, exchanging and developing pan-European research and best practice. Interested in ideas which stimulate economic growth and help people to help themselves, we promote and raise awareness of 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
• Updating European pension systems to empower individuals
• Ensuring more consumer-driven healthcare, through reform of European health systems and markets
• Encouraging an informed debate on intellectual property rights as an incentive to innovate and develop new knowledge in the future, whilst ensuring wide public access to such products in the present
• Reforming European energy markets to ensure the most beneficial balance between economic growth and environmental quality
• Emphasising the benefits of globalisation, trade and competition and creating an understanding of free market ideas and institutions