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Judy Asks: Is it time for hard power in North Korea?
06 September 2017
Carnegie Europe
If there ever was a chance of a successful military response to North Korea’s nuclear program, it is now gone.
La grande coalizione che serve all’Europa
05 September 2017
Il sole 24 Ore
Christian Odendahl, capo economista del Centre for European Reform, in un’analisi pubblicata dopo il dibattito , butta lì l’ipotesi intrigante di un Governo democristiano di minoranza, con l’appoggio “variabile” di Spd, Fdp e Verdi. Ma questo sembra contraddire la predilezione dell’elettorato tedesco per la stabilità.
When it comes to progress, what counts as 'sufficient'?
05 September 2017
Politico
“The key issue for ‘sufficient progress’ will be money,” said Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform think-tank. “The EU and the U.K. will have to agree on a methodology for calculating the amount that the UK must pay.” Such a methodology would have to be “detailed enough to reassure the EU … but vague enough so that journalists cannot easily work out a direct figure,” Grant added. EU estimates of this figure range from €65 billion net to €100 billion.
How May can put Brexit back on track
04 September 2017
Bloomberg
And that, as John Springford of the Centre for European Reform has argued, might be the worst possible outcome for hardliners. It would lead voters to conclude that Brexit was a terrible mistake after all -- an error that they might then decide to put right.
Die SPD hätte mehr Sozialdemokratie wagen müssen
04 September 2017
Makronom
Spätestens nach dem TV-Duell dürfte klar sein, dass die Sozialdemokraten die Bundestagswahl verlieren werden.
France Culture: Flexisécurité, Loi Hartz, Jobs Act : l’Europe à la recherche d’un modèle
04 September 2017
Christian Odendahl speaks to radio France Culture about the German Hartz reforms (in French, from 40.00 mins).
Čas tlačí. Do summitu EU se vyjednavači k brexitu sejdou jen dvakrát
03 September 2017
Tyden.cz
Podle Agaty Gostyńské-Jakubowské z londýnského Centra pro evropskou reformu (CER) jsou pozice stran v klíčových otázkách nadále "velmi daleko" od sebe. "Zdá se mi, že bude velmi složité pro Brity i Barnierův tým se do října dohodnout a otevřít tak cestu k další fázi rozhovorů," uvedla analytička střediska.
The EU is changing – and the UK attitude to Brexit could change too
03 September 2017
The New Statesman
The people running the EU have always wanted it to be uniform.
BBC Radio 4 Today: Brexit negotiations
01 September 2017
Charles Grant speaks to John Humphreys about the Brexit negotiations (from 1h 34m).
No Brexit respite for UK as German parties align behind the EU
01 September 2017
Bloomberg
“Most German voters still have a very hard time understanding why British voters decided the leave the EU,” Christian Odendahl, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, and research fellow Sophia Besch wrote in a note. “They fail to see how retreating from a club of like-minded democratic countries gives Britain more control.”
Liam Fox's cry of "blackmail"
01 September 2017
Financial Times
Charles Grant of the Centre for European Reform argues that the UK request for a transition period after it leaves the EU is key. “If the UK asked for a three-year transition and agreed to pay €10bn a year (roughly what it pays today), that would cover a large part of its share of unspent EU budgetary commitments,” he writes. In other words, the issues of financial settlement and transition are interlinked: “The sequencing can be fixed with a bit of creativity and goodwill from each side.”
Tok FM: The Brexit negotiations
31 August 2017
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska talks to Tok FM about the third round of Brexit negotiations.
BBC World Service Newshour: How are the Brexit negotiations going?
31 August 2017
Veteran Europe watcher Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform, assesses the state of Brexit negotiations as the third round of talks ends.
Tory Remainers claim Labour's single market shift is sending a hard Brexit 'down the pan'
29 August 2017
The Daily Mail
Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, told the paper: 'Many top officials in the EU and governments would welcome an offer of €10 billion a year for three years as part of a transitional deal that would move the talks forward. 'If the British . . . make a serious offer on the money . . . they will not only put the EU on the defensive, they will also expose divisions on how to respond to the money deadlock.'
EU's Brexit negotiator tells UK to speed up and 'get serious'
29 August 2017
The Guardian
Charles Grant, the director of the Centre for European Reform, gave a similar account in a Guardian comment article, saying that “hardliners” around Barnier were blocking this option.
Jean-Claude Juncker's frosty verdict
29 August 2017
Channel 4 News
In the Guardian today, Charles Grant of the Centre for European Reform suggests that the EU might settle for EU60b and that subscriptions for a transition lasting a few years could bring the two negotiating sides’ numbers much closer than might be thought.
Conservatives come together to sell a Brexit transition
29 August 2017
Financial Times
Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, says Mrs May will end up in the same position. “There is only one model of transition that’s conceivable for our partners and that’s the single market with no votes for the British,” he says.
The real problem with Brexit talks is there are hardliners on both sides
28 August 2017
The Guardian
Will the October summit of EU heads of government deem that “sufficient progress” has been made in the UK’s talks on leaving the EU?
New US ambassador to NATO brings relief and pledges of continued support
28 August 2017
Deutsche Welle
Ian Bond, foreign policy director at the Centre for European Reform, takes a more critical view of Trump's overall staffing policy when it comes to diplomacy. While acknowledging he doesn't know Hutchison's record in depth, he says the most important point is that the job is being filled at all and by someone with a long record in public policy.
Brexit: Londres nuance sa position
28 August 2017
Le Monde
Simon Tilford, du cercle de réflexion Centre for European Reform, compare son pays à un homme ivre revenant à la réalité : "Le Royaume-Uni est en train de dégriser".