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Europe Express: Eastern regrets
16 January 2025
Financial Times
A report released today concludes the two are connected, as China is increasingly replacing German imports with goods produced by its own automotive, clean technology and aviation industries, which are also taking over other markets in South America and Asia. “China’s pivot to aggressive export-led growth is undercutting German manufacturing,” says Sander Tordoir of the Centre for European Reform, who co-authored the report with Brad Setser of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Deutschland gerät durch Chinas Export-Strategie immer stärker unter Druck
16 January 2025
Handelsblatt
Deutschland hat durch die stark steigenden Industrieexporte Chinas weltweit am meisten zu verlieren. Zu diesem Schluss kommt eine neue Studie der britischen proeuropäischen Denkfabrik Centre for European Reform, die dem Handelsblatt vorliegt.
Britain picks former New Labour spin doctor as EU negotiator
13 January 2025
Politico
Charles Grant, the director of the influential Centre for European Reform think-tank added that the appointment [of Michael Ellam] “should go down well in Brussels."
Den ukjente militæralliansen skal handle mens NATO tenker
11 January 2025
Harstad Tidende
«Om ikke noen allerede hadde funnet på JEF, ville det være helt nødvendig å gjøre det nå» Dette skrev Ian Bond i den innflytelsesrike tankesmien Centre for European Reform i London i desember. Han er svært glad for JEF er særlig oppmerksom på Russlands hybride krigføring mot europeiske energi- og kommunikasjonskabler på havbunnen.
Indian steel exports could suffer as the EU enforces carbon border rules
09 January 2025
Eco Business
A study, published by the Centre for European Reform (CER) think-tank, on December 3, highlights that many countries may require additional support from the EU to upgrade their heavy industries for a net-zero future.
The politics of anger born of economic discontent... The world enters a 'populist cycle'
06 January 2025
Hankyung
Zach Meyers, assistant director of the Centre for European Reform, one of Europe's leading think-tanks, said, "populism is the result of economic insecurity. Europe, including the UK, has been struggling with long-term low growth."
De Duitse economie krimpt, fabrieken sluiten. Het Duitse ‘zelfbeeld’ is niet houdbaar, zegt econoom Tordoir
03 January 2025
NRC Handelsblad
Duitsland blijkt opeens de oude man van Europa. De digitalisering blijft achter, de infrastructuur is verouderd en China ondermijnt de Duitse industriële basis. „Dit is een existentiële bedreiging.”
If the “Brussels effect” fades in tech markets, the EU will only have itself to blame
03 January 2025
Competition Policy International
The EU’s ability to project its regulatory standards across the globe is under pressure. Policy-makers within the EU fret that over-regulation, especially in tech, is contributing to the bloc’s slow economic growth.
The Telegraph is wrong (again) about Brexit damage
03 January 2025
The New European
Jessop then takes aim at the work of several people including John Springford of the Centre for European Reform, who created a “doppelganger” of a UK economy to which Brexit never happened. This ‘shadow economy’, built through sophisticated modelling, reacts just as the UK has done in the past so we can see how the UK has performed in comparison with the model since Brexit. Springford’s model assesses the hit of Brexit as being 5%.
No, Brexit is not costing Britain £100bn a year
02 January 2025
The Telegraph
The best work here has been done by John Springford at the Centre for European Reform. At face value, his doppelganger models suggest that Brexit has shrunk the UK economy by at least 5pc, which would be well over £100bn a year.