Croatia public policy think tank Centre for Public Policy and Economic Analysis helps to bring the light of freedom and fact-based policymaking. Accordingly, CEA’s mission is to be the Croatian frontrunner in advocating secure, free, and competitive transatlantic institutions. Moreover, the CEA encourages comparative policy learning from developed countries.
Policy
In line with that vision and mission, CEA works on strengthening the moral virtues of free and hard-working individuals. Accordingly, CEA strongly supports the fundamental values of natural rights and individual liberty, especially religious freedom and economic freedom.
All this is important for building a resilient democratic political culture.
Equally important, CEA’s main objective is to advance policy analysis focused on the further expansion of the EU and NATO and the strengthening of defense and the transatlantic partnership.
In addition, CEA strongly supports the rule of law, free market, entrepreneurial initiative, privatizations, limited government, and New Public Management. Finally, CEA stands firmly in support of safe and controlled immigration and law and order.
Orientation
Consequently, CEA supports center-right conservative, conservative-liberal, and ordoliberal policies based on a synergy between the values of Western Christianity and the Enlightenment. Such policies are philosophically opposed to anarchism, progressive liberalism, radical secularism, communism, and the extreme left/right.
That way, CEA is primarily close to Niall Ferguson, Samuel Huntington, Max Weber, Friedrich Naumann, Adam Smith, John Locke, John Milton, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich von Hayek, Talcott Parsons, and the Founding Fathers.
Publishing
Moreover, CEA has published translations of the books Morality of Capitalism and After the Welfare State and organized several round tables and panels. The last one was the panel on 300 years of Adam Smith.
CEA organized an ESG panel and published its analysis of the ESG green woke agenda.
Projects
Regarding key projects, Think Tank Detektor detects populist disinformation as geopolitical risks associated with Russian, Chinese, Iranian, Serbian, and other aggressive influences. In this regard, CEA stands firmly with Ukraine, Moldova, Taiwan, Israel, South Korea, and other countries struggling with repressive regimes. Also, Croatia 2025 provides measurable public management and institutional reforms in Croatia.
That way, CEA contributes to the Croatian public policy process with important intelligence to support mitigating key structural and geopolitical risks.
Expertise
Furthermore, CEA delivers precise solutions based on critical thinking and a deep understanding of complex problems. Because of that, CEA supports the important competitive advantages of human intelligence against AI.
Moreover, CEA’s work is based on the expertise of its political scientists, economists, lawyers, historians, sociologists, philosophers, and public relations experts. In particular, CEA combines multidisciplinary expertise in the areas of public policy, public affairs, public management, geopolitics, international relations, political economy, macroeconomics, law, intellectual history, religion and politics, political sociology, and political philosophy.
Think tank collaboration
So far, CEA has provided policy analysis for portals Ekonomski Lab, Pametni gradovi, 4 Liberty.eu, Atlas Network, and ex-Banka.hr.
Furthermore, CEA has built a network of international collaborations with the following think tanks:
Bertelsmann Foundation, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Atlas Economic Research Foundation (United States),
Warsaw Institute, Centre for International Relations and Liberte! Foundation (Poland),
Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (Germany),
Council on Geostrategy and Adam Smith Institute (UK),
Fraser Institute (Canada),
Timbro (Sweden),
Centre for European Perspective (Slovenia),
European Values Center for Security Policy (Czechia), and
Lithuanian Free Market Institute (Lithuania).
Think thank leadership
President: Matej Hittner
Vice Presidents: Daniel Hinšt and Igor Šlosar
Other members of the Executive Board: Emil Pavić, Goran Vojković, Matija Horvat and Igor Sokolar
Other members: Petar Vušković, Marija Lalin, Bruno Šagi, Fran Fadljević, Jerko Lovrić, Karlo Krnić, Franjo Bušić, Petar Šarić, Adrijan Štivić, Matija Magerl, Mario Guvo, and Magdalena Pavelić Hinšt.
Regarding formalities, the City of Zagreb administration registered the Centre for Public Policy and Economic Analysis as an association on December 27, 2010, based on the founding assembly from November 20. In particular, CEA’s registration number in the Croatian Register of Associations (Registar udruga) is 21008165.
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