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Is Sir Keir Starmer’s cautious ‘reset’ with Europe enough to undo the damage done by Brexit?
01 September 2024
The Observer
“People in the UK don’t realise just how bad our reputation is in the EU,” remarks Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform. “There’s a lot of work to do to rebuild trust and confidence, and convince them that Starmer isn’t just a nicer version of Rishi Sunak.”
Europe’s Anglo-German axis is an astonishing turn of events
30 August 2024
The Telegraph
“The French think we are too close to the Americans. They want to rule the roost in European defence industries, and they are taking a very hard line,” said Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform.
Meblowanie Komisji Europejskiej. Nie tego spodziewała się von der Leyen
30 August 2024
Polskie Radio
Choć Ursula von der Leyen chciałaby połowę stołków w Komisji Europejskiej obsadzić według parytetu płci, to na razie tylko sześć spośród nadesłanych ponad 20 kandydatur na komisarzy, to kobiety. - To będzie bardzo trudne do zaakceptowania przez Parlament Europejski - powiedziała Polskiemu Radiu ekspertka londyńskiego Centre for European Reform Zselyke Csaky.
Der Traum von der sozialdemokratischen Achse zwischen London und Berlin
29 August 2024
Die Welt
Charles Grant, Direktor der britischen Denkfabrik Centre for European Reform, glaubt, dass sich die EU vor allem beim Handelsabkommen kaum bewegen wird. „Die vorherrschende Linie in der EU ist die der Kommission und der Franzosen, dass das Handelsabkommen abgeschlossen ist und die Briten lernen müssen, damit zu leben und das Beste daraus zu machen“, sagt er WELT.
UK's Starmer wants to ‘Turn a corner on Brexit.’ What does that mean?
28 August 2024
The New York Times
So the first phase of Mr Starmer’s re-engagement with European leaders is simply to be pleasant to them, said Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, a research institute. “This is all about mood music, rebuilding trust, restoring confidence, being nice to people, being polite and showing that we have changed — which sounds obvious but is really important,” he said.
China’s industrial strategy on ‘collision course’ with top German export industries
27 August 2024
EurActiv
Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, however, told Euractiv the issue goes beyond cars, and it is increasingly threatening Europe’s top exporting economy.“The two countries, and in particular [their] car and machine industries, are on a collision course,” he said, due in large part to “massive, industry-wide subsidisation” in China.
The EU-UK reset: What are the prospects for closer co-operation?
26 August 2024
Euronews
"Labour has not ruled out a role for the European Court of Justice, and it's spoken very positively - not only in the veterinary field, but also for example in chemicals - about the value to domestic industry of aligning with EU rules," Luigi Scazzieri, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, told Euronews."This is something that the UK is already doing spontaneously, so why not formalise that so that your businesses then have an easier time when exporting to the EU market?" he added.
Brüsseler Autozölle verärgern die Bundesregierung
23 August 2024
Handelsblatt
Sander Tordoir, Chefvolkswirt der Denkfabrik Centre for European Reform, meint dazu: „Der laute Widerstand des Bundeskanzlers gegen die Zölle könnte bedeuten, dass Deutschland das Beste aus beiden Welten bekommt.“
Deutscher Industrie droht der China-Schock
22 August 2024
Handelsblatt
Sander Tordoir, Chefökonom beim Centre for European Reform, sieht einen zweiten China-Schock. Und der werde größer sein als der erste. Der erste China-Schock beschreibt die Zeit nach der Aufnahme der Volksrepublik in die Welthandelsorganisation.
La falta de inversión pública de Alemania lastra a su economía y frena a la UE
22 August 2024
El Pais
“El estancamiento alemán arrastra a toda la eurozona. Esto se ve de manera muy prominente en lugares como la República Checa, que están tan ligados a las cadenas de suministro alemanas”, explica Sander Tordoir, economista jefe del instituto de análisis Centro para la Reforma Europea (CER, por sus siglas en inglés), especializado en el papel de Alemania en la UE.
Leyen mebluje Komisję Europejską. Czy Serafin ma szansę na super tekę?
21 August 2024
Bankier
W kluczową fazę weszły negocjacje Ursuli von der Leyen ze stolicami w sprawie podziału tek w jej drugiej Komisji Europejskiej. Wiele stolic wystawiło wysokiej rangi kandydatów i oczekuje potężnych tek - powiedziała PAP Zselyke Csaky z think tanku Centre for European Reform.
Free movement curbs could be relaxed under EU reset
21 August 2024
The Times
Charles Grant, the director of the Centre for European Reform, said the EU had clear areas of interest in a reformed Brexit deal with the UK.“There are at least three areas where the EU is looking for movement from the new government,” he said.
TRT World: Can Ukraine maintain its gains from the incursion into Russia?
16 August 2024
Ian Bond, deputy director of the CER spoke to TRT World about Ukraine's incursion into Russian territory.
The state of startup creation in Europe
15 August 2024
Sifted
Zach Meyers, an assistant director at the Centre for European Reform, adds that the bigger decrease in the Dealroom data might be a sign not of the tech industry's weakness, but rather that of Europe's VC sector — as the data only shows startups that got some VC funding.
SPOTLIGHT ON SLOVAKIA: Back with a vengeance
13 August 2024
Politico
“What is fueling Fico is a sense of revenge on the one hand,” said Anton Spisak, a Slovak academic at the Centre for European Reform in London, “and a desire to control the state apparatus on the other, so as to prevent a situation where his future and that of his associates could be jeopardized again.”
Why discontent is spilling over onto Slovak streets amid Fico government reforms
13 August 2024
Euronews
"The European Commission has been very careful not to draw a line of attack on the (Slovak) government, and that has been made much more difficult because of the recent assassination attempt on Fico himself," Anton Spisak, associate fellow at the Centre for European Reform, told Euronews.
Trade secrets: Security pact
12 August 2024
Financial Times
Here’s an interesting article from, Luigi Scazzieri at the Centre for European Reform on a security pact touted by the new Labour government. Security being “at least in theory”, the authors note, an area of common concern for the UK and the EU.
How to get to an EU-UK security pact
12 August 2024
EU Observer
The UK’s EU reset is fully underway. The European Political Community summit in Blenheim was the perfect platform for Keir Starmer to present the UK as a key ally to its EU neighbours, and Britain’s leaders have been touring European capitals to grease the wheels of diplomacy.
Charles Grant, szef londyńskiego think tanku: Fala imigracji w Wielkiej Brytanii musi opaść
08 August 2024
Rzeczpospolita
Skrajna prawica jest w Wielkiej Brytanii równie wpływowa, co we Francji – uważa Charles Grant, założyciel i dyrektor londyńskiego Centre for European Reform.
State of Britain: EU-UK rapprochement woes
08 August 2024
Financial Times
Luigi Scazzieri of the Centre for European Reform unpicks the options beautifully in this piece in which he concludes that “pursuing an incremental approach” is going to be the most sure-footed way to build trust and overcome long-standing differences.He notes, for example, that the Gibraltar issue has held up implementing a deal signed by the Conservatives to facilitate troop movements across the EU. Reaching agreement with Spain over post-Brexit arrangements for Gibraltar is a key target for Lammy this autumn, but it shows how EU negotiations don’t happen in isolation.