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Meer lezen (en luisteren)? - Win-win?
06 July 2026
Het Financieele Dagblad
Wat hebben de EU en de eeuwige kandidaat-lidstaat Turkije elkaar te bieden? Het Centre for European Reform zet het nog eens op een rijtje.
Kaja Kallasele tahetakse nii võimu juurde anda kui ära võtta
06 July 2026
Estonian World Review
Londoni mõttekoja Centre for European Reform analüütik Ian Bond tabab ka inimliku tahu: minna riigi esinumbrist, kes valitsuses ja süsteemis on number üks, üheks paljudest komisjoni asepresidentidest pole kerge üleminek.
Trump targets EU digital taxes with 100% tariff threat, raising stakes for transatlantic trade
06 July 2026
Benzinga
Analysts at the Centre for European Reform argue Washington is using market access as leverage to shape how other countries regulate and tax US firms, Aslak Berg of the CER wrote that such measures "represent a dramatic attempt to intervene in other countries’ internal regulation and taxation.
China is devastating the last stronghold of German industry
03 July 2026
The Wall Street Journal
“China has already eaten much of German industry’s lunch and is preparing to start on dinner,” the Centre for European Reform think-tank, bluntly warned in a recent report.
Taking the Pulse: Has Meloni broken MAGA's civilizational axis?
02 July 2026
Carnegie Europe
As I wrote right after Trump’s 2024 election, there was always an inherent contradiction in nationalist leaders who want to put America first, or Italy first, or Germany first banding together.
Are the EU and China heading for a trade war? 5 things to know
02 July 2026
Nikkei Asia
"A European 301 would give the EU a clear negotiation strategy with China," said Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform. "It allows the EU to put trade defenses on a subset of sectors of its choosing."
Developing a European way of war
01 July 2026
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
This year's NATO summit takes place against the backdrop of a radically changing US posture in Europe prompted by different threat perceptions of Russia.
Die zweite China-Welle rollt auf die deutsche Industrie zu
01 July 2026
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
In einem Papier des Centre for European Reform tauchte ein Begriff auf, der bereits seit Längerem die Runde unter Ökonomen macht. Unter dem Titel „China shock 2.0: The Cost of Germany's Complacency“ argumentieren der CER-Chefökonom Sander Tordoir und Brad Setser vom Council on Foreign Relations, dass die deutsche Wirtschaftsschwäche nicht primär hausgemacht ist, sondern Folge eines strukturellen Drucks aus China.
EU urged to exempt UK from car rules that could be worst Brexit impact yet
01 July 2026
The Guardian
Germany, whose car industry has significant manufacturing within China, was recently urged by the Centre for European Reform thinktank to “wake up” to the threat of the Chinese and the galvanisation of industry voices appears to be having an effect.
Unpacking Europe: 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum
01 July 2026
Charles Grant spoke with Catherine Day about how Brexit looks to people in the EU, a decade after the referendum.
Paris and Berlin push to make EU foreign policy great — somehow
30 June 2026
Politico
“To go from being the sort of number one person in the government and in the system, to one of a number of vice presidents of the Commission, may not be the easiest transition,” said Ian Bond, deputy director of the Center for European Reform, a think tank based in London, Brussels and Berlin.
L’Europe marche comme un somnambule vers le nouveau choc chinois
29 June 2026
Le Grand Continent
Sander Tordoir est un économiste néerlandais. Ancien de la Banque centrale européenne, il travaille au Centre pour la réforme européenne, un think tank britannique de premier plan.
Rachel Reeves’s legacy? Unpopular choices that will help her successor
28 June 2026
The Sunday Times
Detailed estimates by John Springford and Anton Spisak for the Centre for European Reform, using the latest modelling techniques, find that Brexit has reduced goods exports to the EU by 16 per cent, and service sector exports by 7 per cent. Imports are also down, in both categories, more for services than goods. These losses have largely been incurred from leaving the single market.
Diez años después, cómo cambió Gran Bretaña tras la votación del Brexit
28 June 2026
La Nacion
El Brexit también desencadenó lo que John Springford, otro economista, llama “una huelga de inversiones”. Durante décadas, Gran Bretaña casi siempre ha tenido la inversión de capital más baja del G7.
EU’s Šefčovič going into China trade talks hobbled by European leaders’ flip-flopping
26 June 2026
EU Observer
According to a paper by the Centre for European Reform (CER), which has been cited by commission officials in recent weeks as evidence of the urgency of the crisis posed by Chinese oversupply, China now accounts for roughly 30 per cent of global manufacturing output, while consuming only 13 per cent.
Wo China die Zukunft baut, mitten in Deutschland
26 June 2026
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Ein Treffen in Berlin im Mai. Café „Einstein Unter den Linden“. Es treten ein, etwas außer Atem, Brad Setser und Sander Tordoir. Sie sind gerade vom Bundestag herübergeeilt, ihre Tage gefüllt mit Gesprächen mit Parlamentariern und Ministeriumsleuten.
BNR Nieuws: China overspoelt Europa met goedkope export
26 June 2026
In deze aflevering van Boekestijn en De Wijk gaat presentator Hugo Reitsma in gesprek met Arend Jan Boekestijn, Rob de Wijk en econoom Sander Tordoir over de groeiende economische druk vanuit China.
Cheat sheet for an EU financial geopolitics plan
25 June 2026
Financial Times
The Centre for European Reform has published an update of its influential measure of the economic price of Brexit. It finds that leaving the EU’s single market has cost the UK economy more than leaving its customs union.
Peter Magyar is trying to fire up Hungarian democracy
25 June 2026
The Economist
Mr Orban is being hoist on his own petard: he often used his own party’s supermajority to alter the constitution. Still, “from a rule-of-law perspective an amendment designed to force people out of office is not great,” says Zselyke Csaky of the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank headquartered in London.
Ten years on, Brexit's economic impact is becoming clearer
24 June 2026
BBC News
The Centre for European Reform uses a different method, trying to take account of what could have happened if the UK had not been excluded from a more recent surge in intra-EU trade, leading to a goods trade hit of 16% to exports and 14% to imports.