Stockholm Network

The Stockholm Network was a pan-European think tank and network located in London. In addition to its own policy research, it was an umbrella organisation for market-oriented think tanks in Europe. It had over 130 member organisations.

The organisation was founded in 1997 by Helen Disney in response to the growth in market-oriented think tanks across Europe, with the aim of providing a forum for sharing, exchanging, and developing pan-European public policy research. Interested in ideas which stimulate economic growth and help people to help themselves, it promoted and raised awareness of policies which create the social and economic conditions for a free society. Its stated goals included:

• 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
• Creating an understanding of free market ideas and institutions