Skip to main content

What is BREL?

BREL ASBL is a new European platform for policy review.

BREL’s purpose is to attract new thinking on how to unleash sustained and secure growth and better regulation in Europe

The platform aims to bring together the best brains in informal settings, virtual or in-person, to debate how Europe can best make the necessary policy trade-offs to move forward.

How BREL operates

1

BREL periodically convenes in high-level roundtable format current or former policymakers, academics and private interests, moderated each time by a recognised figure in the EU policy field.
2

BREL produces summary reports of deliberations and practical conclusions for action. The reports may, if all participants agree, be publicised and/or be submitted to decision-makers.
3

BREL publishes calls for papers elaborating on key themes emerging from the above deliberations.

Governance

The activities of the platform are financed entirely by voluntary donations from private individuals or entities which formally agree to the terms and conditions of the not-for-profit platform.

Who

Andrew Fielding

Andrew Fielding

With more than 40 years’ experience working in and with the EU institutions, Brussels think tanks and big tech, Andrew is able to tackle client problem-solving as a matrix, taking in all levels of the decision-making process, civil society and media.

Prior to joining Acumen, Andrew was for nine years vice president of government relations for Samsung Electronics Europe and advisor to the president of the European Commission on single market and labour law. He has also been EC cabinet lead and EC spokesman for employment and social policy.

Earlier in his career he was a member of cabinet of the European Commissioner for the EU budget and, over eight years, developed a specialisation in EU state aid disciplines and procedure.

Pauline Camacho

Pauline Camacho was born in Lisbon Portugal in 1959, and lived and was educated in Zurich Switzerland. Since the mid 80s she is resident in Brussels Belgium where she founded a family and pursued a freelance career as Conference Interpreter in the European Institutions.

Pauline worked as a Sandtherapist with children, and invested her free time in volunteering for sick children in hospitals. She continues to organise fundraising events for the non profit organisation Mothersatrisk of which she is a co-funder and dedicates time as volunteer in the palliative care unit of the Clinic St Elisabeth and fulfilling her duties as Elder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

Insights

Make Europe Great Again
Make Europe Great Again
Make Europe Great AgainEurope

Make Europe Great Again

After the EU and Brexit revolutions, what becomes of national sovereignty? Just over five years ago,…
David FrostDavid Frost23/05/20251 min

Contact

    *Required Fields