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Policy Network
http://www.progressive-governance.net/


3 posted on 04/04/2008 10:51:20 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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looks like more of a Third Way element. clinton is up to his eyeballs in it.

http://www.progressive-governance.net/aboutus/index.aspx?id=58

Progressive governance network

The progressive governance movement came into existence almost two years before the establishment of Policy Network. Progressive governance, for which Policy Network acts as a secretariat, was initiated by former president Bill Clinton on 25 April 1999, when he hosted and led a roundtable discussion in Washington with the participation of the British prime minister Tony Blair, the German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, the Dutch prime minister Wim Kok, and the Italian prime minister Massimo D’Alema.

The initial goal of the progressive governance movement was to enhance co-operation and links between key progressive policymakers and academics as well as to provide a meeting place for exchanging concrete policies and practices. Progressive leaders wanted to show that progressive politics had been liberated from outdated attitudes and practices. The network of progressive thinking across the world came into existence as a means of fulfilling these goals.

The first large high-level summit of the network in its current form took place in Berlin on June 2-3, 2000. The common political base for the network was presented in the Berlin Communique: Progressive Governance for the 21st Century.

The work of the network continued with a high level summit held in Stockholm in February 2002. The conclusions of these discussions are outlined in the Stockholm Communique: A Progressive Agenda for Democracy and Development.

The London progressive governance conference in July 2003 brought together 12 world leaders, former heads of state and government, and over 600 progressive politicians, thinkers and strategists from more than 30 countries. Hosted by Tony Blair, the conference was the largest ever international gathering of international centre-left leaders, policy-makers and thinkers.

Since the London conference, the progressive governance network has held major summits in Budapest and Johannesburg. The next progressive governance conference will be held in April 2008.


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