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Iran nuclear deal: After the nuclear deal, Iran is our "frenemy"
17 July 2015
City A.M
Tuesday’s agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme is a momentous achievement, but only if it can be enforced and verified. Following the diplomatic deal in Vienna, Western governments should engage with Tehran, but also help to contain Iran’s growing influence in the region.
While Tehran celebrates the upcoming removal of international sanctions,...
While Tehran celebrates the upcoming removal of international sanctions,...
Wake up, Westminster! Why MPs should pay more attention to the EU
17 July 2015
British Influence
In his famous Bloomberg speech of January 2013, offering British voters a referendum on EU membership, David Cameron promised to strengthen the role of national parliaments in the EU. But are British parliamentarians up to the task? The Commons’ limited interest in European business suggest not.
The British parliament has been...
The British parliament has been...
EMU brutality in Greece has destroyed the trust of Europe's Left
15 July 2015
The Telegraph
"What I find worrying is that so few political figures in Germany seem troubled by the spectacle of Greece being humiliated in this way. The Germans have somehow turned everything around and think that they are the victims," said Simon Tilford of the CER.
Groundhog day for Europe: Why David Cameron needs to learn from his mistakes
15 July 2015
EPIN
Ahead of the UK general election, opinion polls predicted that Britons would wake up on May 7th to a hung parliament. But for the first time since John Major’s defeat in 1997, Britain again finds itself governed by a Conservative majority government.
Video on: Westminster's scrutiny of European affairs
15 July 2015
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska discusses her most recent CER publication 'A ten-point plan to strengthen Westminster's oversight of EU policy'.
See her publication here.
See her publication here.
The eurozone’s fault lines
14 July 2015
The New York Times
Without crucial reforms, the currency union is likely to remain in a political no man's land, whatever happens to Greece.
The Greek bailout deal resolves nothing
14 July 2015
The Huffington Post
The new bailout deal signals Greece's capitulation to its creditors, something which has important ramifications for the bailout's success. Even if the deal makes it through the Greek parliament in the coming weeks, the programme's economic incoherence will make it fall apart.
Third Greek rescue deal met with widespread scepticism
14 July 2015
Financial Times
"Greece's third bailout is bound to fail for the same reasons that the last two programmes did," said Christian Odendahl, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform think-tank. "A government who... claimed to be ending austerity will now be forced to do the opposite."
Greek deal poisons Europe as backlash mounts against 'neo-colonial servitude'
14 July 2015
The Telegraph
Christian Odendahl and John Springford from the CER said the new bail-out "resolves nothing" and is likely to fall apart even if it gets through the Greek parliament. It repeats the errors of previous packages that imposed self-defeating levels of fiscal contraction.
Germany yet to swallow some economic medicine prescribed for Greece
14 July 2015
The Wall Street Journal
"The attitude in Germany and in policy circles is that we don’t have a problem, so we get the luxury of keeping distortions of the free market," said Christian Odendahl, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank in London.
Greek PM faces new battle to secure bailout approval
14 July 2015
Voice of America
John Springford of the CER said, "It just repeats what was done before. And what happened before was that austerity killed growth and it raised unemployment. And it damaged the legitimacy of the economic reforms which the creditors insisted upon."
Who was the boss in the Greek talks?
14 July 2015
CNBC
"What you saw happening is basically the creditors able to get their way in a manner that suggests the euro zone isn't necessarily the community of values we thought it was, but a transaction framework where those with power are able to get their way," Rem Korteweg, a senior researcher at the CER in London, told CNBC.
For France, mission accomplished as 'Grexit' averted
13 July 2015
Reuters
"If 'Grexit' is avoided, it will show that Hollande has been a bridge-builder and helped avoid a geo-political catastrophe," said Rem Korteweg, senior researcher at the London-based Centre for European Reform think-tank.
Porozumienie w sprawie Grecji, czyli porażka dla Europy
13 July 2015
Wiadomosci
Przygotowany przez niemieckie ministerstwo finansow dokument przedstawiający tzw. tymczasowy ‘grexit’, choć formalnie nie byl dyskutowany podczas szczytu, mial za zadanie dodatkowo oslabic pozycję negocjacyjną Grekow - mówi w rozmowie z WP Agata Gostyńska, CER.
Deal on Greek debt crisis exposes Europe’s deepening fissures
13 July 2015
The New York Times
Together with the migration crisis and Greece, these represent “the four horsemen” circling around Europe’s future, said Rem Korteweg of the Centre for European Reform, a research institution based in London.
Greece could be grinding toward a deal
10 July 2015
CBS News
'The Greek side wanted the issue that Greek debt is unsustainable to be tackled in any new agreement," wrote Christian Odendahl, chief economist of the London-based Centre for European Reform.
Will the ongoing Greek crisis have a positive impact on Britain's renegotiation with the EU?
08 July 2015
City A.M
John Springford, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, says No
Those who believe that an embattled EU, weakened by an ongoing Greek crisis – or worse, Grexit – would give big concessions to David Cameron are misguided.
Those who believe that an embattled EU, weakened by an ongoing Greek crisis – or worse, Grexit – would give big concessions to David Cameron are misguided.
Greece seeks new bailout, pledges reforms
08 July 2015
Voice of America
Christian Odendahl of the CER, believes there is still a chance for a deal that will also pass muster in Germany, Greece's biggest creditor. He said, "I think the probability for an agreement is still relatively high, because no side really wants Greece to leave the eurozone, to default and so forth."
Merkel's German critics say Greek bailout was doomed from start
07 July 2015
The Wall Street Journal
"Merkel now has very limited political space within which to maneuver because domestic public opinion has become strongly anti-Greece," said Simon Tilford, deputy director of the CER who believes Germany pushed too much austerity onto euro-crisis-stricken countries.
The Greeks got to vote. Now the rest of the eurozone will get its turn
07 July 2015
Quartz
To get these leaders on side, Greece needs to engage in a "rhetorical disarmament," Christian Odendahl, chief economist at the CER think-tank, tells Quartz.