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Ian Bond, director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform, put it this way in a piece produced by Carnegie Europe: “Russia is a threat to Europe only because Europe allows it to be. Vladimir Putin has been very adept at maximizing the effectiveness of the tools he has, keeping the West off-balance and leaving its leaders with a feeling of impotence.”

Sam Lowe, research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, agrees - claiming there is “no coherent vision” of what the UK sees as its future relationship with the EU, exacerbated by the factional divisions in Cabinet.

The economy is 2.1 per cent smaller than it would have been had the result gone the other way, according to a new analysis by the respected think-tank the Centre for European Reform. The hit to the public finances is £23 billion a year, or £440 million a week – higher than the £350 million promised on the side of the bus for the NHS.

The prime minister is edging towards something that looks much like a single market in industrial goods, to counter the need for regulatory checks at the Irish border — or any of Britain’s ports — after Brexit. “It is a proposal under current consideration,” says Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform. He wonders whether Mr Johnson and fellow Eurosceptics might quit rather than swallow it.

The CER estimate of a 2.1% smaller economy than if the UK had voted to remain in the EU is equivalent to a knock-on hit of £23 billion a year to the public finances, some £440 million a week. The think tank created a model using data from similar OECD economies including Canada, Japan, Hungary and the US to estimate how the UK would have performed if the referendum result had gone the other way.

A new analysis has found that the UK’s decision to exit the European Union has already slowed the nation’s economic growth by a cumulative 2.1% as of the first quarter of 2018, compared to likely results had Brexit been rejected two years ago. The study also found that the referendum vote is now costing the British government £440 million ($584 million) per week in lost tax revenue, challenging longtime claims by Brexit supporters that leaving the EU would improve government balance sheets. The study is from the pro-EU, London-based Centre for European Reform.

Nicht einmal die Visegrad-Vier, die in so manchem westeuropäischen Land oft als schwieriges Gegenüber empfunden werden, sind ein geschlossenes Gebilde. "Die Visegrad-Staaten sind keine einheitliche Gruppe", sagt Agata Gostynska-Jakubowska von der in London ansässigen Denkfabrik CER (Centre for European Reform).

Meanwhile research by the Centre for European Reform (CER) think tank indicated Brexit had already made the UK economy 2.1% weaker than it would have been if voters had decided to stay in the EU. ...The CER estimate of a 2.1% smaller economy than if the UK had voted to remain in the EU is equivalent to a knock-on hit of £23 billion a year to the public finances, some £440 million a week.