Bruegel
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- This article is about the Brussels-based think tank. For the members of the family with the same name, see Brueghel.
Bruegel is a Brussels-based think tank, which was created on 10 August 2004 and started operations in 2005. It is meant to be a Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory, therefore its name which also refers to the late Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Bruegel is chaired since January 2005 by Mario Monti, and its director is the French economist Jean Pisani-Ferry.
Bruegel's stated aim is to "contribute to the quality of economic policymaking in Europe through open, fact-based and policy-relevant research, analysis and discussion".
Bruegel is financed by 15 governments of member states of the European Union, and 27 international corporations. It claims that its independence and intellectual integrity is guaranteed by the diversity of its funding sources (with no individual sponsor contributing more than 5.5% of total budget in 2006), the transparency and quality of its governance, and the experience of its scholars.
[edit] Members
Bruegel currently has two categories of members: State members and Corporate members.
The State members are: Austria, Belgium, the Republic of Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, the United Kingdom.
The Corporate members are: Areva, BP, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Börse, Deutsche Post World Net, Deutsche Telekom, EADS, EMI, Euronext, Fortis, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Hellenic Petroleum, Iberdrola, IBM, Novartis, Nokia, Novartis, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Renault, RWE, Sanpaolo IMI, Siemens, Suez, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Thomson, Unicredit.
