Simon Tilford

Simon Tilford

Associate fellow
Areas of expertise 

Britain and Europe, the euro, fiscal and monetary policy, labour and social policy, competition, innovation, environmental economics and demographics.

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CER podcast: The EU referendum - a fact free debate

20 June 2016
Charles Grant chats with colleagues Simon Tilford, Rem Korteweg, Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, John Springford and Sophia Besch to discuss common EU myths and how to improve the quality of the debate.
If we leave the EU, other countries will think we're a bunch of spoilt children

If we leave the EU, other countries will think we're a bunch of spoilt children. They'll be right

The Telegraph
10 June 2016
Seen from outside the UK, Britain’s Brexit debate has taken on an otherworldly quality. Foreigners struggle to see how the UK could flirt with something so destructive to its own interests.

Es könnte passieren, gleichsam aus Versehen

Die Presse
09 June 2016
The Remain camp is winning the economic and business cases in the referendum race, but immigration fears and low turnout could tip the scales towards Leave.

ARD: Die Story im Ersten - Albtraum Brexit

06 June 2016
Das Rennen zwischen Befürwortern und Gegnern eines Austritts aus der EU ist denkbar knapp. Doch was kommt nach einem Brexit?

Brexonomics: The five most insidious anti-EU myths debunked

City A.M.
03 June 2016
Eurosceptics peddle a raft of myths about the economic costs of EU membership. These have little, if any, empirical basis, but Brexiteers cling to them doggedly however many times they are refuted by proper academic research.

CER podcast: Five questions on the economic implications of a Brexit for the EU

13 May 2016
In the second episode of a series of podcasts on the implications of a Brexit for the EU, Simon Tilford explains the economic consequences for the EU.

Brexit would be a victory for xenophobes, we must not turn back the clock

The Telegraph
29 April 2016
Britain's EU referendum will be a vote on immigration. The out camp know that voters are aware of the economic and political risks of Brexit, but hope that their resentment of "uncontrolled" immigration from the EU will trump these concerns.

Judy Asks: Will the eurozone crisis come back?

Carnegie Europe
20 April 2016
A selection of experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world.

The EU will play hardball with post-Brexit Britain

The Telegraph
19 April 2016
Post Brexit Britain will look back ruefully at its past privileges – inside the single market, but outside the eurozone – and wonder what possessed it to give them up.

La pregunta es qué obtiene el Reino Unido alejándose de Europa

La Voz de Galicia
13 March 2016
Simon Tilford es subdirector del Centro para la Reforma Europea en Londres. Al reflexionar sobre el referendo de permanencia del Reino Unido en la Unión Europea pone énfasis en la importancia de que el 23 de junio vayan a votar los jóvenes, más favorables a Bruselas.