The Center for European Renewal (CER) is a pan-European

conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization i ...

organization based in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...

, the

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. The CER was founded as the Vanenburg Society in the summer of 2007 by a group of mainly European conservatives. They included Dutch ethicist and legal philosopher

Andreas Kinneging Andreas Antonius Maria Kinneging (born 26 February 1962 in Eindhoven) is Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Leiden, and a conservative philosopher in the Netherlands. Background Kinneging was raised in a Catholic family in the Du ...

, the (late) German political thinker

Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing Caspar Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing (23 June 1927 – 25 January 2009) was a German writer, scholar and publisher. He was a leading thinker of the post-war political right in Germany. He is associated with the Neue Rechte, German New Right. Li ...

, Czech think-tank director Roman Joch, Spanish publishing executive Jorge Soley Climent, Flemish law professor

Matthias Storme Matthias Edward Storme (born 1959) 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 (b. 1930) used to be a universit ...

, and Alexandre Pesey of L'Institut de formation politique (IFP). Following an exploratory meeting at Vanenburg Castle in

Putten Putten () is a municipality and town in the province of Gelderland, Netherlands. It had a population of in . It is located in the coastal area of the old Zuiderzee (Southern Sea). To the east of Putten lies the Veluwe, the biggest national par ...

, the Netherlands, in the spring of 2006, the CER has held annual summer meetings—in

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(2007),

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

(2008),

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

(2009), Krakow (2010),

Leuven Leuven (, ) or Louvain (, , ; german: link=no, Löwen ) is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. The municipality itself comprises the historic ...

(2011),

Cirencester Cirencester (, ; see below for more variations) is a market town in Gloucestershire, England, west of London. Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames, and is the largest town in the Cotswolds. It is the home of ...

(2012),

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

(2013),

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

(2014),

Dubrovnik Dubrovnik (), historically known as Ragusa (; see notes on naming), is a city on the Adriatic Sea in the region of Dalmatia, in the southeastern semi-exclave of Croatia. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterran ...

(2015),

(2016),

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

(2017) and

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...

(2018). Speakers at these meetings have included

Roger Scruton Sir Roger Vernon Scruton (; 27 February 194412 January 2020) was an English philosopher and writer who specialised in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views. Editor from 1982 t ...

Ryszard Legutko Ryszard Antoni Legutko (), (born 24 December 1949), is a Polish philosopher and politician, and professor of philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, specializing in ancient philosophy and political theory. Biography Under communis ...

Chantal Delsol Chantal Delsol (also Chantal Millon-Delsol; born 16 April 1947) is a French philosopher, political historian and novelist. The founder of the Hannah Arendt research institute, founded in 1993, her work is inspired by Julien Freund and Pierre Bou ...

David Gress David Richard Gress (born 29 January 1953) is a Denmark, Danish historian, known for his 1998 survey ''From Plato to Nato'' on Western identity and grand narratives. Life He was born in Copenhagen, the son of R. W. B. Lewis, an American literary ...

Rémi Brague Rémi Brague (born 8 September 1947) is a French historian of philosophy, specializing in Islamic, Jewish, and Christian thought of the Middle Ages. He is professor emeritus of Arabic and religious philosophy at the Sorbonne, and Romano Guardini ...

Anthony Daniels Anthony Daniels ( ; born 21 February 1946) is an English actor and mime artist, best known for playing in 10 ''Star Wars'' films. He is the only actor to have either appeared in or been involved with all theatrical films in the series, and h ...

Agnieszka Kołakowska Agnieszka Kołakowska (born 1960) is a Polish philosopher, philologist, translator and essayist. She is the recipient of the 2012 for the essay collection ''Wojny kultur i inne wojny''. She was born in 1960 to the family of philosopher Leszek K ...

, Gabriele Kuby and Douglas Murray, as well as other young scholars, policy analysts, journalists, and political activists. The CER aims to become a European network of thinkers, writers, scholars, etc., along the lines of the US-based

Philadelphia Society The Philadelphia Society is a membership organization the purpose of which is "to sponsor the interchange of ideas through discussion and writing, in the interest of deepening the intellectual foundation of a free and ordered society, and of bro ...

. Inspired by the

Intercollegiate Studies Institute The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) is a nonprofit educational organization that promotes conservative thought on college campuses. It was founded in 1953 by Frank Chodorov with William F. Buckley Jr. as its first president. It sponsors ...

, it also hopes to eventually offer educational programs. To date, the CER has published one collection of essays, ''Plato on Wall Street'', in collaboration with the Ośrodek Myśli Politycznej (Centre for Political Thought). Some members of the CER also produce a quarterly magazine entitled '' The European Conservative''.

Sources

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

External links

Center for European Renewal (website)

The European Conservative (website)
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