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“Countries in the Middle East have such huge trade surpluses that they’re kind ofdesperate to find places to put dollars and euros. And I guess European telecomslooks pretty cheap at the moment,” said Zach Meyers of the Centre of EuropeanReform think-tank.

The Centre for European Reform has estimated that UK annual tax revenues would have been about £40bn higher if the country had not left the EU.

Hvorfor taber Europa terræn i den globale økonomi? Ifølge Zach Meyers, vicedirektør for den britiske tænketank Centre for European Reform, er det en kombination af årsager. »En vigtig årsag er, at demografien ikke er på Europas side. Vi har en aldrende befolkning; der bliver færre og færre til at udføre jobbene.«

De Hongaarse onderzoeker Zselyke Csaky van het Centre for European Reform onderzoekt al jaren hoe Europese jongeren denken over democratie. "De reguliere partijen concentreren zich vaak op het beschermen van wat we hebben. Dat betekent voor jongeren dat hun situatie niet verbetert. Deze partijen beloven jongeren dus niet noodzakelijkerwijs iets positiefs."

Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform think-tank, said economics could prove the most crucial factor in deciding a Labour government's EU policy“Most Labour members and party activists are strongly pro-European and would like to go back into the EU. So there's pressure from them already, but the leadership has resisted that pressure for the last few years and can go on resisting it if it wants,” he said.

“China’s whole growth model is where they repress consumption at home and recycle the savings via the levers of Chinese state led capitalism into investment,” Sander Tordoir, chief economist with the Centre for European Reform said.