25 May 2024 – Madrid

• Rod Richardson, Climate & Freedom International Coalition & Grace Richardson Fund
• Diego Sanchez de la Cruz, Instituto Juan de Mariana, Spain
• Sebastian Stodolak, Warsaw Enterprise Institute, Poland
• Rob Armstrong, Institute for Free Trade, UK

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Local Partner, economist Diego Sanchez de la Cruz, of Instituto Juan de Mariana (IJM), did an outstanding job helping to organize the event, ably supported by co-hosts Rob Armstrong, of the Institute for Free Trade (IFT) in the UK, and Sebastian Stodolak, of the Warsaw Enterprise Institute (WEI) in Poland.

Lord Daniel Hannan, President of IFT, outlined the dangers of climate protectionism – and the benefits of a free market, free trade alternative – in the lead off presentation, hinting at the upcoming launch of a new IFT study. Irune Ariño, also of IJM, presented a primer on The Spanish Bubble - a brief history of how excessive subsidies resulted in highly negative impacts on the economy. Sebastian Stodolak also presented an overview of WEI’s 7 think-tank collaborative study on the energy sector in Central Europe, and country-specific barriers to private investment. All of these works will be finalized and posted within our website shortly.

The workshop included attendees from all over Europe, and featured an enthusiastic contingent from Students for Liberty, as well as policy veterans, scholars, authors, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and professionals. We welcomed comments from Daniel Lacalle, Lorenzo Montanari of Tholos Foundation, Clara Camacho from Fundalib - organizer of the Atlas Network Europe Liberty Forum 2024, Alessio Cotroneo, winner of the Shark Tank Competition at the Liberty Forum, and Piotr Palutkiewicz of WEI, as well as various members of the Climate and Freedom International Coalition.

We invite you to review our full list of Resources and Videos, and to get involved in this work.