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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.

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.

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.

“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.”

Production in Germany has been in decline for five years, as noted in a new report by Sander Tordoir, the chief economist of the Centre for European Reform, and American economist Brad Setser.  ...It might, as Setzer and Tordoir advise, back IMF scrutiny of countries with persistent and overly large trade surpluses.

„Die EU sollte keine neuen, vagen Koordinierungsinstrumente einführen, das stellt den Prozess über echte Entscheidungen“, sagte der Chefökonom des Centre for European Reform, Sander Tordoir. Stattdessen müsse sich die EU darauf einigen, welche Sektoren sie retten wolle und dann die vielen Instrumente, die sie habe, gezielt einsetzen.

“En Europa, el clima económico es sombrío, con un PIB que crece a un ritmo mediocre y mucho más lento que en EEUU y en Asia y que, en consecuencia, ejerce de lastre de ingresos personales y de retraimiento del poder adquisitivo de los europeos”. La cita encabeza un informe del Centre for European Reform (CER), think tank británico que emergió de la Tercera Vía del laborismo de Tony Blair, en los noventa, y que siempre se ha jactado de tener una visión paneuropea; incluso durante el último decenio de Brexit.

Chinas Auto-Subventionen stellen offenbar eine besondere Gefahr dar – vor allem für Deutschland. „Deutsche Unternehmen werden Schwierigkeiten haben, mit staatlich unterstützten chinesischen Firmen zu konkurrieren“, sagt CER-Ökonom Sander Tordoir. „Und wenn den deutschen Herstellern die Gewinne zur Finanzierung neuer Investitionen fehlen, drohen sie technologisch zurückzufallen.“

"The question is whether the way authorities look at competition should change depending on whether you're looking at old or new industries,” says Zach Meyers of the Centre for European Reform. “When thinking about a typical monopolist, you think about them sitting back, having the quiet life and overcharging consumers. But when you're thinking about how tech works, competition doesn't really work like that — they're competing on investment and innovation.”