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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.

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.“

“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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

»Orbán har i mange år sagt, at Østen vokser sig stærkere, mens Vesten er ved at tabe. For ham er Vesten et depraveret sted med flere og flere problemer, som han mener primært er forårsaget af migranter og LGBTQ+-personer,« siger Zselyke Csaky, der er analytiker ved tænketanken Centre for European Reform.