Open Europe

Open Europe is a liberal think tank with offices in London, Brussels and Berlin, which campaigns for economic and political reforms in the EU. These reforms should follow the principles of subsidiarity, transparency and responsibility. For such reforms to be mobilized through independent research, public relations, and through contacts in all political parties, the media, business and science. Founded Open Europe by British businessmen who also fund the think tank. Open Europe Berlin ( OEB) is formally independent from the British think tank, but works closely with London together. OEB is mainly funded by a donation from the British Jewish businessman and inventor Games Tom Kremer.

Objectives

Given a weak economic development, increasing global competition and demographic crisis in Europe, there is an urgent need to find a new model of European cooperation, which is consistent with the economic reality and the preferences of the citizens in line. Open Europe designs the vision of a leaner, outwardly facing EU, which facilitates the internal and global free trade at the same time democratic, transparent, and responsible for their actions for the future development of the EU. Flexible integration provides for the British think tank, another focus of the future development of Europe represents the EU should be flexible enough to allow flow back powers to its Member States and to integrate these in varying degrees in the EU.

Open Europe believes that the EU has reached a critical moment in its development. Globalization, extensions, failed EU referendums and the euro crisis would preclude the performance of " an ever closer union ". However, Europe has the potential to overcome the challenges.

The work of Open Europe is focused on " the principles of a market economy policy [ ... ] establishing itself as a nucleus of a European economic governance ". From the perspective of Open Europe, a European economic governance is to be achieved on market basis, by promoting free trade internally and externally and the over-regulation is contained. Money wastes disclose, stable money and enter a European regulatory policy rather than interventionism are other objectives of Eurosceptic organization. The director of Open Europe Berlin, Michael Wohlgemuth, has also called for an essay together with the German economic experts Lars Feld more direct democracy on the Swiss model in the EU.

Award

On 10 July 2012, the think tank of the British public newspaper Prospect has the distinction Think Tank obtain the year in the category " International Affairs ".

Criticism

In a letter to the FAZ, threw Jo Leinen, Chairman of the European Movement International ( EMI), the think tank the right to distribute the Promote an "open Europe " secretly a nationalist and own British view of Europe. This had nothing in common, in which the same rights apply to everyone with the founding idea of the EU as a common judicial area and stand up for each other all the Member States. The opened in fall 2012 Open Europe branch in Berlin will now attempt to give rise to an anti-EU sentiment in the largest country of the EU.