| The Economist on the future of Brussels' think tank sector |
| Written by Alex Singleton | |
| Friday, 08 June 2007 | |
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The Economist has a very interesting article in today's issue about the Brussels think tank world, of which it is something of a skeptic. "Nobody seems able to change the default formula for Brussels policy seminars: good coffee and croissants, dull speeches and a brief exchange of conventional wisdom," it says. Well, I'm sure that there's a lot of good, worthy work being done in the think tank world in Brussels. But the sector is very much in its infancy. The newspaper says that the debate created by London-based think tanks is "livelier". In particular, it suggests - quoting the free-market guru Johann Norberg - that the Brussels think tank world be better not simply reacting to the usual political process, but by supplying it with "the next big idea". And that's exactly what we at the Globalisation Institute - with experience at the best American and British think tanks - want to do when we move our HQ from London and open in Brussels on 1 September. Five years from now, things are going to very different.
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