The '''Stockholm Network''' is a working group corporate lobbying company and network of European "market-oriented " think-tanks. It has two primary objectives: to build a wide network of pro-market policy specialists within Europe Its clients include Pfizer, Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) and to use that network to influence the future direction of European policy-making on issues of panSchering-European importance. It was founded in 1997 in London and StockholmPlough Corporation.
On its website Writing in ''The Times'' in December 2005, Paul Staines wrote that the groups states Stockholm Network "turns out to be in fact the public face of [[Market House International]], a PR consultancy that tells corporate clients that the network gives it "brings together more than 110 market-oriented think tanks from across Europe, giving us the local capacity to deliver both local messages and locally-tailored global messages across the EU and beyondin a wide range of countries"." [http://www.stockholm-networkspinwatch.org/aboutmodules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2064]
Witing in ''The Times'' in December 2005, Paul Staines wrote Shortly after that the Stockholm Networkarticle was published, "turns out to be in fact the public face of [[Market House International]]Ltd was renamed as Stockholm Network Ltd. This is incorporated as a for-profit company, creating a PR consultancy that tells corporate clients that the network gives it "local capacity to deliver both local messages and locally tailored global messages in a wide range of countries"single seamless brand." [http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2064]
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== External links==
*Corporate Europe Observatory, "[http://www.corporateeurope.org/stockholmnetwork.html Covert industry funding fuels the expansion of radical rightwing EU think tanks]", July 2005.
*Paul Staines, "[http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2064 content/view/2267/9/ You want policy? In cash?]", ''The Times'' (London), December 20, 2005, Page 19.
[[Category:Think tanks]][[Category:Europe]]