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Jeremy is losing us support in Labour's heartlands - Yvette Cooper
28 June 2016
BBC News
Former shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, who was defeated by Jeremy Corbyn in last year's leadership election, has joined the calls for him to quit. Speaking to the Centre for European Reform in London, she said: "He is losing us Labour support across the country - and particularly in the towns and coalfields that built the Labour movement in the first place.
BBC World Service: Can The EU Survive?
28 June 2016
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska speaks to the BBC World Service about the future of the European Union after Britain's vote to leave (from 08.44).
Labour crisis: Yvette Cooper fails to rule out leadership bid as she urges Jeremy Corbyn to quit
28 June 2016
International Business Times
Labour's Yvette Cooper has failed to rule out another leadership bid, as the former minister urged Jeremy Corbyn to stand down from the top job amid an attempted coup. "I'm not ruling anything out, but I'm not standing here launching any campaign," Cooper told journalists when she was grilled on her own political ambitions. Cooper, speaking at the CER, also called for the creation of a National Commission on Immigration, which would attempt to build a consensus on the issue.
Euronews: Brexit: rischi di contagio
28 June 2016
Ian Bond, del Centre for European Reform, commenta: “Molto dipende da che cosa accadrà al Regno Unito. L’importante è non dare l’impressione che sia tutto facile. Penso che l’approccio alla Boris Johnson, che vuole la botte piena e la moglie ubriaca, non l’avrà vinta. I leader europei gli diranno: avete una scelta, è una scelta fra due opzioni, e basta”.
A snap election is coming, Yvette Cooper claims
28 June 2016
The Daily Mail
In her speech at the CER, Ms Cooper said: "There needs to be direct access for the Opposition to civil servants now too. The leading Tory party contender has said he is considering an General Election. The Prime Minister has accepted there may be a case for an early General Election, that may be only 4 months away."
Cooper calls for national commission on immigration
28 June 2016
The Guardian
Yvette Cooper, the former shadow home secretary and former Labour leadership contender, gave a speech to the Centre for European Reform this morning. The only clip I’ve seen on the news features a passage criticising Jeremy Corbyn, but it will be a shame if that is the only passage that gets picked up because the speech was very good. It is probably the most thoughtful response to the referendum I’ve heard yet from a British politician.
IB Times: Yvette Cooper fails to rule out leadership bid as she urges Jeremy Corbyn to quit
28 June 2016
Labour's Yvette Cooper has failed to rule out another leadership bid, as the former minister urged Jeremy Corbyn to stand down from the top job amid an attempted coup.
Yvette Cooper calls on Jeremy Corbyn o "stand down swiftly" to save Labour
28 June 2016
BuzzFeed
Senior Labour MP Yvette Cooper has called on Jeremy Corbyn to "stand down swiftly" as party leader – and refused to rule out her own leadership bid. Cooper said Corbyn would be letting down communities "who badly need a Labour government" if he failed to bow to pressure and resign.
TOK FM: Szkocja prosi UE aby jej nie zawiodla
28 June 2016
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska speaks to Tok FM about Scotland after the UK's EU referendum.
Yvette Cooper says she won’t rule out standing for Labour leader
28 June 2016
The Guardian
Yvette Cooper has warned that Jeremy Corbyn has no alternative plan for the country’s post-Brexit future, in a speech in which she said she would not rule out standing for the Labour leadership should the position fall vacant.
Speaking before the result of a no-confidence vote in Corbyn’s leadership, expected at 5pm on Tuesday, Cooper said time was running out for progressive opposition figures to begin setting out their stall for what a departed UK should look like.
ZDF: London: Regierung unter Druck
27 June 2016
Christian Odendahl speaks to ZDF about what happens now in the UK, following the EU referendum result, from 4.00 minutes.
Brexit: Haunted Europe
26 June 2016
Financial Times
"From now on, the narrative will be one of disintegration, not integration," says Charles Grant of the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank. "That doesn’t mean that the EU will fall apart, or even that another country will leave, which is highly unlikely in the foreseeable future. But the centrist politicians who run nearly every EU member-state will henceforth be on the defensive against the populist forces who oppose them and the EU."
Brexit is a rejection of globalisation
26 June 2016
The Guardian
That dream is now over. As Charles Grant, the director of the Centre for European Reform think-tank put it: "Brexit is a momentous event in the history of Europe and from now on the narrative will be one of disintegration not integration."
Parliament must decide what Brexit means in the interests of the whole Kingdom
26 June 2016
The Telegraph
"Whatever Juncker and a few federalist diehards in Brussels may think, most EU governments have woken up to the reality that the more Europe the push, the more euroscepticism they get," said Charles Grant from the Centre for European Reform. "The knee-jerk reaction of the Commission is always to try to seize on any crisis to try to push for more Europe and closer integration, but they can dream on this time," he said.
Dossier: 'Brexit'. Apuesta sin ganador
26 June 2016
El Universal
“Nada de lo que se haga a partir de ahora será bueno, ni para Europa, ni para Gran Bretaña, porque el Brexit fue una apuesta al retroceso”, sostiene Camino Mortera, analista del Centre for European Reform.
BBC Westminster Hour: The UK after the referendum
26 June 2016
Speaking on the BBC's Westminster Hour (from 48.02 mins) Charles Grant observed that the EU will be forced to undertake major reforms in the wake of Brexit, including on the issue of free movement.
Wat Brexit voor Nederland betekent
26 June 2016
NRC Handelsblad
Rem Korteweg van het Centre for European Reform in Londen verwacht dat de Britten een vrijhandelsakkoord met de EU willen sluiten dat ze de vrijheid geeft om een dergelijk systeem in te voeren. „Wellicht dat er dan per nationaliteit een quotum gaat gelden. Of, en dat is waarschijnlijker, naar beroepsgroep en dan afhankelijk van de vraag aan wat voor personeel er behoefte is”, zegt Korteweg.
Europejskie domino
26 June 2016
Wprost
Brexit to przede wszystkim sygnał dla instytucji unijnych: trzeba się skupić na odbudowaniu zaufania obywateli do projektu europejskiego, a nie na pomysłach dalszej integracji - mówi Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, ekspertka Centre for European Reform w Londynie.
Na nią nie ma apetytu w poszczególnych stolicach. Nie zapominajmy jednak, że za Brexit odpowiedzialne są przede wszystkim elity polityczne i eurosceptyczne media, które od lat prowadziły nagonkę na Unię
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Na nią nie ma apetytu w poszczególnych stolicach. Nie zapominajmy jednak, że za Brexit odpowiedzialne są przede wszystkim elity polityczne i eurosceptyczne media, które od lat prowadziły nagonkę na Unię
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Falló Cameron, pero Bruselas ignoró el asunto
25 June 2016
La Nueva Espana
A eso de las tres o las cuatro de la madrugada empezaron a remitir las esperanzas de Camino Mortera, jurista ovetense, investigadora del Centro para la Reforma Europea, un "think tank" sobre asuntos europeos con base en Londres.
Why people who really wanted Brexit will regret it most
25 June 2016
The Washington Post
But perhaps the best evidence that people who voted for Brexit will come to regret it — if they haven't already — came via this report from the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank that favored Britain remaining in the EU By leaving, Britain is potentially also leaving its network of trade agreements within the region, pending negotiations. For areas that depend on exports for their economic sustenance, a less favorable trade agreements could deal a serious blow.