CNE Monatsmagazin Digest
March 2005

English Summary

Lace from Brussels ... "The really good news is if you go from Moscow to Dublin, and from Sweden to Greece, there are now more than 120 active free market think tanks in Europe. Their impact, success and following are growing every year. In time, they will be successful," said CNE-President Dr. Tim Evans at the opening of this year's CNE Capitalist Ball, where IEA-Founder Presidents Lord Harris of High Cross and Dr. Arthur Seldon, CBE, as well as Spanish economist Jesús Huerta de Soto received the 2005 CNE Adam Smith Awards for lifetime achievement.

Berlin Connection ... "Forced by law to buy expensive wind and solar current and via promises to get safe and morally sound capital revenues, consumers put under tutelage and trustful investors lose billions of Euros," writes CNE-blogger Edgar Gärtner in his article on green boys and their deals.

Green fodder ... Thomas Deichmann interviewed Professor Klaus-Dieter Jany about Greenpeace's warnings of genetically modified food. "From a scientific perspective these warnings are overdrawn. Modified soy and corn food have been cultivated in foreign countries since 1996. Around the globe, not a single case of harm against man or beast reported has been prooven correct," says Jany, Director of the Central Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Germany's Federal Research Centre for Nutrition and Food.

Salzburg Dumplings ... CNE's Head of Academic Affairs, Hardy Bouillon, on his appointment as Hayek Foundation Guest Professor at the University of Salzburg during Summer term 2005: "I am deeply grateful to the Vienna Hayek Institut for this unique opportunity and I very much look forward to teaching a subject to which I have devoted a great deal of my research, Austrian Economics - the most successful mix of philosophy, economics and humanities in general of which I know." Bouillon will use this new challenge to demonstrate the impact of scientific work on think tank success.

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Dr. Hardy Bouillon is Head of Academic Affairs at the Centre for the New Europe.