Since its founding in 1992, MESA10 champions individual liberty, free market economy and a government of limited powers. It promotes private initiative, individual rights, democratic principles and values such as free competition, equality of chances, free enterprise, openness of the economy and inviolability of private ownership. Thoughout its existence, MESA10 supports, in diverse ways, economic and social reforms aimed at building a free society based on respect for democratic principles and values. MESA10 and its members pushed for structural reforms in economy, banking, judiciary, public finances and public administration. After Slovakia's integration into the European Union and the NATO in 2004, MESA10 strengthened its accent on sharing Slovakia's transitional and reform experience. It works on the projects involving the EU and NATO member states, those aspiring to join them and countries, companies and communities trying to shape, initiate or implement reforms.