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RTL: De Duitse economie heeft een oppepper nodig
19 February 2025
Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the CER spoke with RTL about the German economy and the hope that Sunday's election brings a supermajority for economic reform and a fiscal impulse to lift consumption and investment (from 7 mins).
EU-India set to shape future relations in crucial New Delhi meeting
19 February 2025
EurActiv
India, as the world’s fifth-largest economy and most populous nation, has ambitious plans to boost manufacturing and exports while engaging globally through multilateral partnerships, says Anunita Chandrasekar of the Centre for European Reform (CER).
«Das reicht nicht»: Deutscher Wahlkampf stimmt Ökonomen pessimistisch
19 February 2025
Tagesanzeiger
Deutschland’s Wirtschaftsmodell – sparen, während andere konsumieren – ist [jetzt] eine Sackgasse. Das zeigen Brad Setser & Sander Tordoir in ihrem neuen Papier schonungslos auf.
Here’s why Trump wants to make Ukraine a US economic colony
18 February 2025
The Telegraph
“I think this is going to go down pretty badly in Europe,” says Ian Bond, a former British diplomat who is deputy director of the London-based Centre for European Reform. “Trump basically appears to be acting as though the Americans have the right to seize Ukraine’s national assets, in return for the assistance that they have given so far.
Europe's population crisis
18 February 2025
The Guardian
“Most politicians on the centre-left and centre-right recognise that immigration is needed to ease demographic pressures,” said John Springford, an associate fellow at the Centre for European Reform think-tank. “They have sought to focus on tougher – and often inhumane – asylum rules in the hope that stricter border enforcement will provide political cover for higher regular immigration.
The Spectator podcast: Can Starmer be the bridge between Europe and the US?
17 February 2025
Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform joins Oscar Edmondson and James Heale to discuss if Keir Starmer can be the bridge between Europe and the US in the Spectator podcast.
Cacciatori e prede
14 February 2025
Corriere della Sera
Gli economisti Sander Tordoir e Brad Setser ricordano che il primo «choc cinese» all’inizio del secolo falcidiò l’industria del tessile e degli elettrodomestici in Italia, ma il secondo sta falcidiando l’industria dell’auto in Germania. Dal 2019 al 2023 la quota di mercato dei modelli tedeschi di alta gamma in Cina è collassata dal 79% al 45% e il crollo non è finito.
NPO Radio 1: Hoe kunnen Nederland en Europa meer investeren in defensie?
13 February 2025
De NAVO-ministers van Defensie zijn vandaag bijeen in Brussel. Hoog op de agenda staat verhoging van de militaire uitgaven. Want steeds duidelijker wordt dat Europa op eigen benen moet kunnen staan. Maar investeren in defensie gaat vele miljarden kosten. En dus is de vraag: hoe gaan we dat in Nederland en in Europa betalen? Een gesprek met Bert Colijn, econoom bij ING en met Sander Tordoir van de denktank Centre for European Reform in Berlijn.
US allies seek clarity on Ukraine support at Munich Security Conference
13 February 2025
Voice of America
US allies sense a change in tone from the president since his inauguration last month, said Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, a London-based research group.“Though Trump has said a lot of things to worry a lot of people on tariffs, on trade, on Gaza and so on, he hasn't yet said anything particularly crazy from a European point of view about Ukraine or NATO. He hasn't repeated his threat to pull out of NATO. He said the Europeans should spend more [on defense] but most of us agree with him on that. He hasn't said he's going to cut off all aid for Ukraine,” Grant told VOA.
For the EU, a Trump White House is a lurch into new territory
13 February 2025
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
“The next few years could be very dangerous for Europe’s stability and security, and will put the transatlantic relationship - which has benefited US as well as European interests for the last 80 years - under extreme, perhaps terminal strain,” said Ian Bond, deputy director from the London-based Center for European Reform.
How European Defense Bonds could work
13 February 2025
Internationale Politik Quarterly
Common EU debt issuance does not create an off-the-shelf bazooka. Making bonds work implies inevitable trade-offs and requires real tax revenues.
Why Europe is struggling to fill its investment gap
12 February 2025
EurActiv
“Some common debt may be unavoidable but it is controversial, even if it is only used for productivity-increasing investments in EU public goods such as breakthrough innovations, defence and cross-border energy infrastructure,” analysts at the Centre for European Reform wrote in a recent report.
What should Britain’s future relationship with the European Union look like?
07 February 2025
Britain's World
Sir Keir says that the UK is not ‘choosing between the United States (US) and the EU’, but the threats by Donald Trump, President of the US, to use tariffs and military might against friendly countries shows the risks of being too dependent on America.
EU plots strategy for dealing with Donald Trump's tariffs blitz
07 February 2025
The Times
Allied economies could include Japan, South Korea, Canada, Australia and the UK in a “G6 plus” model, says Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform.
Taking the Pulse: Has political deadlock in member-states become a strategic problem for the EU?
06 February 2025
Carnegie Endowment
Domestic political disagreements do not always lead to foreign policy paralysis: To defeat Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill and Clement Atlee bridged profound ideological differences, remaining in UK’s coalition government from 1940 to 1945.
Foreign strongmen cheer as Musk dismantles US aid agency
05 February 2025
The New York Times
Zselyke Csaky, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, calculated that the United States spends about $2 billion a year on direct democracy promotion programs, including both direct State Department funds and US AID grants. Europe, she said, spends about $4 billion, and would need to spend about 50 percent more to make up the difference.
Transatlantic turbulence: How Trump’s second term reshapes US-Europe diplomacy
05 February 2025
The Geopolitics
The former Chancellor Merkel thought Trump held a special resentment toward Germany while Ian Bond from the Centre for European Reform predicted Germany would stay on Trump’s “top of hit list” permanently.
Ryzyko wielkiej wojny handlowej nie zniknęło, ale nieco się oddaliło
05 February 2025
Rzeczpospolita
To nie byłby wiatr przeciwny dla niemieckich producentów samochodów. To byłaby burza o pełnej skali. Niemcy, jako centrum przemysłowe, są teraz wciśnięte pomiędzy USA a Chiny i jest im bardzo ciężko – ocenia Sander Tordoir, główny ekonomista think tanku Centre for European Reform.
CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: How can Europe survive Trump's tariffs and a second China shock?
05 February 2025
Sander Tordoir and Zselyke Csaky discuss Trump's tariffs and the second China shock.
Trump’s tariffs threaten to crush Germany’s struggling car industry
03 February 2025
The Telegraph
“This isn’t a headwind for German carmaking, it’s a full-on storm,” says Sander Tordoir, the chief economist at the Centre for European Reform think-tank. ...“Germany, as a manufacturing hub, is being squeezed between China and the US,” Tordoir says. “It’s very tough for them.”