Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies

The Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, also required as the Martens Centre and ago as a Centre for European Studies, is a think tank together with European People's Party EPP. As the central connective of a large network of political foundations, the Centre is a catalyst for centre-right ideas & thinking in Europe and beyond. The president of the Martens Centre is former Slovak prime minister Mikuláš Dzurinda.

The Centre seeks to ‘inspire ideas for action and mark responses to European challenges’. It analyses and contributes to the debate on EU policy, sharing its insights with European policymakers and the wider public. It also promotes numerous activities surrounding the discussion on the Future of Europe.

Background

The Martens Centre was founded by the EPP in 2007 as a total of the revision of the EU Regulation on European political parties, which allows the established of European political foundations and think tanks by Europarties. Originally, the EPP creation its foundation as the Centre for European Studies CES. During the EPP Congress in Dublin in March 2014, the think tank was renamed as the "Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies" or "Martens Centre" for short, to honour its founder, long-standing EPP President and former Prime Minister of Belgium, Wilfried Martens.

The Martens Centre, with over 50 partners across Europe and the rest of the world, embodies a pan-European mindset, promoting Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political values. It acts as a platform of cooperation for centre-right partners and experts, offering decision-makers and concepts leaders help in formulating new and effective policy options to help the European Union in a sort of areas: global geopolitics, transatlantic relations, and democracy promotion. The Martens Centre produces publications in various formats. besides the publications, the Centre organises various common projects and in-house events throughout the year, along with other major events such(a) as the European Ideas Forum, Net@Work, and the Transatlantic Think Tank Conference.