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Scenariusze wyboru przewodniczącego Rady Europejskie. Polska zastosuje wybieg?
09 March 2017
Wiadomosci
- Tego typu argument może zirytować partnerów europejskich. Ostatecznie decyzja o tym, czy uwzględnić go, czy doprowadzić do głosowania będzie należeć do państwa sprawującego prezydencję, czyli Malty - mówi WP Agata Gostyńska, ekspert instytutu Centre for European Reform w Londynie.
Wybór szefa RE bardziej regulowany przez zwyczaje niż przepisy
08 March 2017
Gazeta Prawna
Zdaniem analityczki z Centre for European Reform Agaty Gostyńskiej-Jakubowskiej, możliwe jest, że kiedyś dojdzie do zmiany regulacji zapisanych w traktacie lizbońskim, ale - jak zauważyła - nie ma obecnie klimatu politycznego w Europie do nowelizacji traktatów.
Brussels threatens penalties as EU states fail to resettle refugees
08 March 2017
Voice of America
The EU could take Hungary to the European Court of Justice to attempt to force compliance, but Brussels has other options, says Camino Mortera-Martinez of the Centre for European Reform, who spoke to VOA from Brussels. “So instead of going after a country that is not complying with EU law, you can try to use some other tools to force them into complying – for example, by withdrawing some of the budgets,” she said.
Wybory przewodniczącego Rady Europejskiej. Kto jeśli nie Tusk?
07 March 2017
Wiadomosci
Na jego korzyść mają działać dobre relacje z prezydentem USA Donaldem Trumpem, a także terminarz: w maju, kiedy kończy się kadencja Tuska, partia Kenny'ego, centroprawicowa Fine Gael, ma wybrać nowego lidera. - Kenny pojawił się na giełdzie nazwisk w 2014 roku. Nie dziwi mnie więc, ze jego nazwisko ponownie jest brane pod uwagę przez niektórych komentatorów - mówi WP Agata Gostyńska, ekspert Centre for European Reform w Londynie.
CER podcast: Charles Grant on Theresa May's emerging Brexit deal
07 March 2017
Discussion on the process of deciding the British position in Brexit negotiations, the value of the UK’s ‘trump cards’ and why European officials are pessimistic about finding a good agreement.
Tok FM: Francja, Niemcy, Włochy i Hiszpania za UE różnych prędkości
07 March 2017
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska speaks to TOK FM about the mini- summit in Versailles and a multi-speed EU.
Britain plays with fire over Brexit
07 March 2017
Financial Times
Charles Grant of the Centre for European Reform, adds: “At a time of global uncertainty . . . Britain’s decision baffles its partners. They feel snubbed, hurt and (at least in some cases) insecure.”
Dutch complaints
06 March 2017
Financial Times
Wilders wins? Rem Korteweg of the Centre for European Reform argues that the most likely winner from this election is Wilders. If the vote goes as expected, he will be kept out of government, but he will succeed in becoming the voice of opposition politics in the Netherlands.
The 'Jessiah': The Dutch progressive trying to turn back the populist tide
06 March 2017
The Guardian
The governing liberal party led by Mark Rutte is standing at about 16% in the current poll of polls, as is Wilders’ party. Three others parties, including the Greens, hover around 11%. “A leftwing coalition – led by GroenLinks (Green Left) – could possibly be formed and include the Eurosceptic and hard-left Socialist party (SP) or even the fringe PvdD, an animal rights party, the respected Centre for European Reform has reported.
Far-right parties are exploiting a design flaw in coalition governments across Europe
06 March 2017
Quartz
Polls suggest that 13 of those parties may get into parliament; eight are expected to win ten seats or more - a historic high, according to the think tank Centre for European Reform (CER). "Wilders benefits from today’s fragmented political landscape because it means that even if he only gets 1/6th of the vote, he could still end up as the largest party or the largest party in opposition," says Rem Korteweg, a senior research fellow at CER.
Tok FM: Będzie drugie referendum ws. niepodległości Szkocji?
03 March 2017
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska speaks to TOK FM about the Scottish referendum on independence.
How the Dutch fell out of love with the EU
02 March 2017
Carnegie Europe
After decades of embracing a firmly pro-EU stance, the Dutch appear increasingly out of sorts and disappointed with the European Union.
World leaders welcome Trump's measured tone, await details of 'America first' policies
01 March 2017
Voice of America
The warmer tone has been welcomed, says Ian Bond of the London-based Center for European Reform, who spoke to VOA via Skype. "He didn’t repeat the suggestion that it was obsolete and he did stress the importance of NATO. But underneath that he’s still talking in terms of NATO countries paying their bills, as though America is a kind of bodyguard service," Bond said.
EU, pressured from inside and out, considers a reboot
01 March 2017
The New York Times
"The risk, some say, is that you can undermine the coherence and unity of the union, but that’s too bad, because it can’t hold together if it’s not flexible," said Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, a research institution in London. "For instance, why pretend all countries will join the euro? It won’t happen."
Britische Trümpfe: London wird die Sicherheitspolitik in den Brexit-Verhandlungen nutzen wollen
01 March 2017
German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Premierministerin Theresa May hat signalisiert, bei den Austrittsverhandlungen mit der EU auch Großbritanniens militär- und sicherheitspolitisches Gewicht in die Waagschale werden zu wollen – ein riskantes Spiel für die EU, aber auch für die Briten.
A quantum solace - defence in Brexit negotiations
01 March 2017
Berlin Policy Journal
The UK's exit negotiations with the EU have not yet officially begun, but it is already becoming clear that no policy area will remain unaffected - not even security and defence policy cooperation.
CER podcast: Daniel Keohane on the future of European Defence after Brexit and Trump
28 February 2017
Discussion on how Brexit will affect EU defence co-operation and how the UK can use its special relationship with the US to get a better deal from Europeans.
David Davis tells cabinet to prepare for 'unlikely' possibility of UK not getting Brexit deal – as it happened
28 February 2017
The Guardian
The government has been criticised for asserting that it will be able to strike a free trade deal with the EU within two years. “Britain’s partners think that is bonkers,” Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, said in an insightful report published recently about the problems the UK will face getting a Brexit deal. Grant went on: "The fact that [Theresa] May proclaimed that everything could be done in two years makes Britain’s partners worry that 10 Downing Street is not fully in touch with reality."
Theresa May reshapes administration in Home Office mould
25 February 2017
Financial Times
Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform think-tank, said the prime minister might benefit from consulting a wider circle of people “including former permanent representatives to the EU” before finalising her Brexit strategy. “At the moment it seems to be a fairly small group of people involved in decision making, many of them with a Home Office background,” he said.
The €60bn bill that threatens the Brexit talks
25 February 2017
The Irish Times
It is such a potentially contentious issue that Alex Barker, Brussels bureau chief of the Financial Times, warned in a recent paper for the Centre for European Reform that this political collision “could bring the Brexit talks to a sudden and premature end”.