The Center for European Renewal is a pan-European conservative

Conservatism

Conservatism is a political and social philosophy that promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and supports, at the most, minimal and gradual change in society. Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity, while others oppose modernism...

 group based in The Hague

The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...

, the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. The Center for European Renewal was founded in the fall of 2007 by a group of mainly European conservatives, including Dutch law professor Andreas Kinneging

Andreas Kinneging

Andreas A.M. Kinneging is professor of legal philosophy at the University of Leiden, and a prominent conservative philosopher in The Netherlands.-Background:...

, the Czech think-tank director Roman Joch, Spanish university executive Jorge Soley Climent, Flemish law professor Matthias Storme

Matthias Storme

Matthias Edward Storme is a Belgian lawyer, academic and conservative philosopher.- Family life :Storme was born and raised in a Catholic family in the Belgian city of Ghent. His father Marcel Storme Matthias Edward Storme (born Ghent, 1959) is a Belgian lawyer, academic and conservative...

 and the American Mark C. Henrie

Mark C. Henrie

Mark C. Henrie is the Chief Academic Officer of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He is also a Senior Vice-President of the Institute and the Editor of the Intercollegiate Review....

, vice president for academic affairs at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Intercollegiate Studies Institute

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc., or ', is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1953 as the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists...

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The Center for European Renewal aims to become a European version of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Intercollegiate Studies Institute

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc., or ', is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1953 as the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists...

. Following an initial exploratory meeting in Holland in 2006, the group has held summer meetings in Vienna (2007), Madrid (2008), Budapest (2009), Krakow (2010) and Leuven (2011). Speakers at meetings have included David Gress

David Gress

David Richard Gress , is a Danish-American historian, known for his 1998 survey From Plato to Nato on Western identity and grand narratives.-Life:...

, Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton

Roger Vernon Scruton is a conservative English philosopher and writer. He is the author of over 30 books, including Art and Imagination , Sexual Desire , The Aesthetics of Music , and A Political Philosophy: Arguments For Conservatism...

, Ryszard Legutko

Ryszard Legutko

Ryszard Antoni Legutko , born 24 December 1949. Polish philosopher and politician. Professor of philosophy at the Jagellonian University in Kraków, specializing in ancientphilosophy and political theory....

, Chantal Delsol and more recently Tian Liise-Mar.

Sources

'Educating for Liberty in Old Europe', The Canon, the Intercollegiate Studies's member and alumni magazine, Fall 2007, pp. 24-29.