Open Europe

Open Europe is a think tank with offices in London and Brussels and an independent partner organisation in Berlin, promoting ideas for economic and political reform of the European Union.

The think-tank was set up by business people and is a proponent of a flexible model for European integration, allowing for EU member states to integrate with each other to different degrees and for powers to also be returned from the EU to member states. Open Europe is an advocate of an economically liberal EU Single Market as well as supportive of the EU's freedom of movement, but has called for less EU involvement in several other policy areas.

Open Europe conducts research; organises events; sends out a daily European press summary compiled by a multilingual research team, and is active on social media.

Open Europe was awarded "International Think Tank of the Year 2012" by Prospect Magazine.

History

Open Europe was launched on 20 October 2005 in London by business people "to contribute positive new thinking to the debate about the future direction of the European Union".