''Freedom operates in the long-term interest of all'' - Dr. Nigel Ashford

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Jarl Hjalmarson Stiftelsen
Stora Nygatan 30
Box 2080
SE-103 12 Stockholm

Phone: +46-8-676 8000
Fax: +46-8-676 8086

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About the Foundation

To support the struggle for freedom, that was set off by the fall of the Berlin wall, the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation was founded in 1994. The objective is to promote development and European integration on the basis of freedom, democracy and market economy. Activities are principally funded through the Swedish International Development Authority (Sida).

Elections in Chile

On December 13 last year, 8.2 million voted in the Presidential election in Chile. None of the candidates managed to receive a majority of the votes. The Candidates who received the most votes; Sebastian Piñera (44 percent) and Eduardo Frei (29 percent), was up for a second election on January 17 2010. Piñera won with the margin 51.6 percent against Freis, who received 48.4 percent.

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Visa Liberalization in the Balkans
A Success for Europe

Visa Liberalization in the Balkans<br>A Success for Europe<br>
After almost two decades of isolation, it is great news that citizens of Serbia, Montenegra and Mecedinia are able to travel without a visa to the Schengen zone, starting December 19, 2009, writes Gerald Knaus, founder and chairman of the European Stability Initiative (ESI). A Serbian airline promptly offered promotional flights to Schengen countries under the slogan "Europe for all of us", told Knaus and added "This is a much needed success for Europeanisers across the region".
There are lessons here for other countries interested in free movement of their citizens: Turkey, Ukraine, even Georgia. The road to success lies in implementing very demanding conditions, and in seriously addressing the concerns of European citizens and European Interior Ministers.

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Commemorating Yegor Gaidar 1956-2009

The Russian economist and reform politician Yegor Gaidar suddenly passed away on December 16, at the age of 53. The son of an admiral entered Russian history and world politics in the early nineties, as the short lasting prime minister of the Yeltsin government which were about to get the post Soviet economy back on its feet after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

This granted him the admiration of the world but hardly the love of the people. The so called chock therapy, associated to the visiting economist and colleagues Anders Åslund and Jeffrey Sachs,

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2010 Wall calendar

2010 Wall calendar

Click on the image to browse the Hjalmarson Foundation's wall calendar for 2010.

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