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GI to open Brussels office on 1 September |
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Written by Alex Singleton
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Friday, 20 April 2007 |
The Globalisation Institute will be opening a permanent office in Brussels on 1 September. Many policymakers in Brussels have commented that while they value following the Institute's output on trade and globalisation from afar, they would very much like access to the Institute's thinking and events in Brussels itself. With trade policy decided in Brussels, along with much of the decision-making about how we engage with globalisation in its broadest sense, expanding into Brussels is a logical next step in the development of the Institute.
We have two main objectives. The first involves “policy engineering” - the development of practical policy options aimed at the European Commission and other policymakers, backed up by the promotion of those ideas. The second involves making the broader intellectual case for free markets and individual freedom. The GI works therefore to promote its agenda both in today’s political debate and also to move the goalposts of tomorrow’s debate.
In essence, we see ourselves in Brussels as a European version of the Cato Institute or Reason Foundation - a savvy, non-party think tank, combining consistent liberal thinking with significant policy-forming influence.
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