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THE 2007 EDITION OF THE RESOURCE BANK
Between September 13 and 16, 2007 The Center for Institutional Analysis and Development (CADI) is hosting in Bucharest the Fourth European Resource Bank Meeting (ERBM), the largest annual congress of free market think-tanks in Europe. The aim of the 2007 Edition of the ERBM - Europe: Institutions for Liberty in the Global Context - is to find answers to some of the constitutional-level questions for Europeans and provide ...
... participants with unparalleled networking opportunities, as well as with the opportunity to learn and share think-tank methods and techniques that proved to work on liberty’s side.
With the integration of Romania and Bulgaria in the EU, the European integration process has reached a critical point. How far has integration gone in fact, and what problems are still standing? Between the many of the latter, there is a special set of problems, notoriously difficult not only in Romania or Bulgaria but also in the whole of EU-27: the future of social systems, EU-level and state-level bureaucracy, democratic deficit, overregulation and over-taxation. The shaping of a vision for a desirable EU-future in the context of globalization (be it of goods, services, cultures or conflicts) requires a mindset and a conceptual and constitutional frameworks capable of supporting a dynamic economic development. Is it truly necessary to have the EU regulating deep into individuals' private lives, setting the directions for and burdening with complex restrictions the economic and social development, and imposing uniform institutional environments over the continent in order that we enjoy our future? What could free-market oriented think-tanks, media and individuals do to contribute to this future-shaping process? The 4th Edition of the European Resource Bank Meeting will start with these and other questions in September 13-16 in Bucharest. The conference will aim at reconstructing a vision for Europe starting from the basic notion of individual security as the all-encompassing individual right against aggression, especially against aggression by overregulation, over taxation and by other interventionist policies. The European constitutional project will be emphasized as the central institutional locus where these issues will be most influentially set. Alongside answering these constitutional-level questions for Europe, the meeting will provide the participants with networking opportunities, as well as with the occasion to learn various efficiency-enhancing techniques for their institutes.
We are honored to receive more around 300 participants representing tens of free market institutes active throughout Europe, U.S. and other places. Traian Basescu (President of Romania), Jose Pinera (Chile, pension reformer, Cato fellow), Andrei Illarionov (fmr Chief Economic Adviser to the Russian Presidency, Cato Institute), Grover Norquist (Americans for Tax Reform), Jo Kwong (Atlas Economic Research Foundation), Bridgett Wagner (Heritage Foundation), Rayna Gavrilova (CEE Trust), Tom Palmer, Dan Mitchell (Cato Institute), John Fund (Wall Street Journal), Fred Smith (Competitive Enterprise Institute), Peter Jungen, European Enterprise Institute, Charles Blankart (Humboldt University Berlin), Richard Rahn (Institute for Global Economic Growth), Pierre Garello (Institute for Economic Studies), Krassen Stanchev, Institute for Market Economics, Len Shackleton, University of Westminster, Olaf Gersemann (Financial Times), Hardy Boullion, (Center for New Europe), Paolo Magagnotti, European Journalists Association, Manfred Swarovski and Mircea Stanciu, Michael Jaeger, Taxpayers Association of Europe, Orlando Arango (European Investment Bank), Pierre Bessard, Institute Constant de Rebecque, Nick Herbert, MP for Arundel and South Downs, Helen Disney (Stockholm Network), Matthew Elliot (Taxpayers Alliance), Johnny Munkhammar (Timbro), Wolfgang Muller, Institute for Free Enterprise, Jacob Arfwedson, Stockholm Network, Barbara Kolm Lamprechter, Hayek Institut, Yevgeny Volk, The Heritage Foundation Russian Office, Ireneusz Jablonski, Adam Smith, John Couretas, Acton Institute, Natalyia Kychigina, European Journalists Association, Alpokalja-Onlinev, European Journalists Association, Jody Clarke, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Cara Walker, Stockholm Network, Terry Kibbe, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Benoite Taffin, French Taxpayers Association, Kelsey Zahourek, Americans for Tax Reform, Christine Blundell, Institute of Economic Affairs, London, Marcin Nowacki, Project Lodz, Alberto Mingardi (Instituto Bruno Leoni), Theodor Stolojan (Partidul Liberal-Democrat), Valeriu Stoica (Center for Institutional Analysis and Development) are among are among the featured guests.
Friday's Plenary Sessions' Topics:
FRIDAY, September 14
Session I - Constitutions for Liberty
1. Present constitutional drafts throughout Europe and changes in the last decades.
2. Trends in the evolution of constitutional drafts in Europe.
3. Necessary constitutional requirements for preserving and promoting individual liberty.
4. Think-tank strategies and resources employed in influencing constitutional drafting in the direction of individual liberty.
Session II - European Constitution and the Need to Safeguard against Over-regulation
1. The current state of the EU constitution process and debate.
2. Is the EU constitution freedom-enhancing for the peoples of Europe or on the contrary, it is freedom reducing?
3. What are the possible scenarios regarding the future evolution of the constitutional process in EU?
4. What is the position the pro-freedom European movement takes regarding the EU constitution?
Session III - Taxation in Europe
1. The current taxation environment in EU (comparative to other major economies such as US or non-EU countries).
2. Evaluations of the future trends in taxation
3. The flat tax movement in Europe
4. Educating the taxpayers and the politicians about the impact of taxation on economic growth.
Session IV – Europe in a Changing Global
Environment: Links Between Economic Policy and Individual Security
1. How should we understand security from a libertarian / classical liberal point of view? 2. The current reach of domestic governments and its implications for individual liberty and security. Possible trends.
3.The current reach external threats to individual liberty and security. Possible trends.
4. Ways of educating the public and policy makers about the far reaching effects of economic measures.
Session V. The Future of the Social Model(Stockholm-Network)
1. What is the social model? What is the current perception regarding the success of the social model in Europe?
2. How sustainable is it in the medium and long term? How accurate is the perception of that success?
3. What is the alternative model and which of these is worthier to pursue?
4. What can the free-market think-tank movement do in order that the worthier model is pursued?
This year’s Resource Bank Meeting also represents the pillar for other 3 international sized satellite events: A Conference on Privatizing the Romanian Pension System, The European Journalists Association Meeting, The Taxpayers Association of Europe Meeting. |
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