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In Cameron and Merkel visit, a chance to discuss British role in Europe
12 April 2013
The New York Times
"Germany really wants to keep the British in the EU, but not to the point of allowing the British to opt out of more areas of policy or to repatriate more powers," said Charles Grant director of the Centre for European Reform.
David Cameron and Angela Merkel talk about Europe
12 April 2013
BBC Newsnight
Katinka Barysch, deputy director of the CER, on BBC Newsnight discussing Cameron's trip to Germany to discuss EU reform.
Is David Cameron Margaret Thatcher’s heir on Europe?
09 April 2013
Carnegie Europe
Not at all. David Cameron sees the EU very differently to Margaret Thatcher. For a start, when Thatcher was prime minister she was strongly opposed to referendums on the EU.
It's not a question of if, but only when Merkel grasps the nettle of eurozone debt mutualisation
09 April 2013
The Telegraph
In his latest blog, Charles Grant of the CER, raises the question of whether Angela Merkel's stance on the European crisis might change after she is safely re-elected in September, and is therefore perhaps not as much beholden to the prejudices of her electorate as she is now.
France 'to buy US drones'
08 April 2013
France 24
The larger and more sophisticated UAVs are made in the US, Clara O'Donnell, a defence expert at the Centre for European Reform told FRANCE 24. Europe is also keen to develop longer-range drones designed for air-to-air combat, which could ultimately replace fighter jets.
Germany and France 'will block David Cameron's plan for a new EU treaty'
06 April 2013
The Guardian
Charles Grant, the director of the politically independent Centre for European Reform, who has held talks with senior officials in Berlin and Paris in recent weeks, said there was "no chance" of a new EU treaty in time for Cameron to hold a referendum in 2017, even if he was still in No 10.
Britannia liukuu jo kohti EU:n ulkokehää
06 April 2013
Helsingin Sanomat
European Centre for European Reform -ajatuspajan johtaja Charles Grant löytää ilmapiirin muuttumiseen useita syitä. Eurokriisi alkaa olla – Kyproksen välinäytöksestä huolimatta – hallinnassa, joten jäsenmailla ei ole pakottavaa tarvetta ryhtyä jopa vuosikausia kestävään sopimusremonttiin.
Tusk faworytem na nowego szefa KE
04 April 2013
Wirtualna Polska
Premier Polski Donald Tusk jest "zdecydowanym faworytem" na nowego szefa Komisji Europejskiej, a jego minister spraw zagranicznych Radosław Sikorski - na nowego szefa unijnej dyplomacji - pisze Hugo Brady, ekspert think tanku Centre for European Reform.
Tusk "zdecydowanym faworytem" do zostania szefem KE
04 April 2013
Wprost
Hugo Brady, analityk think-tanku Centre for European Reform w swojej analizie ocenił, że Donald Tusk jest "wyraźnym faworytem" do objęcia stanowiska szefa Komisji Europejskiej po Jose Manuel Barroso.
Polish PM 'clear favourite' for next commission chief
04 April 2013
EU Observer
Polish PM Tusk and foreign minister Sikorski are "clear favourites" to become the next European Commission head or EU foreign affairs chief, according to a note by Hugh Brady, an analyst at the London-based think tank the CER.
EU's neighbourhood policy becoming more political, say experts
02 April 2013
EurActiv
"What you are seeing is the EEAS playing a greater role in the ENP. This is bringing foreign policy priorities to the foreground," Rem Korteweg, of the CER told EurActiv.
Germany sees itself as Europe's grown-up, children sullen
01 April 2013
Reuters
"German policy-makers have taken to their new found status with something close to gusto," Simon Tilford said in the latest edition of the CER's bulletin."They routinely tell other eurozone countries how to run their economies, citing Germany as a model for the currency union as a whole."
The Brussels backroom deal that will live in infamy
01 April 2013
Carnegie Europe
The decision to establish a third official seat of the European Parliament (EP) in Dresden, quietly announced on Friday afternoon, when most observers and journalists had already left Brussels to head home for Easter, is a classic example of EU horse-trading. It is also epitomises everything that is wrong with Brussels.
Cameron: barriere sul welfare
26 March 2013
Il sole 24 Ore
l'Europa e proprio su quel terreno - il mercato interno, di cui la libera circolazione è caposaldo - che a Londra sta più caro. "Mi aspetto molti ricorsi alla Corte di giustizia", spiega Hugo Brady del CER.
Die Angst vor der Kontopfändung greift um sich
26 March 2013
Manager Magazin
"Auch andere Länder haben sehr schwache Banken, die letztlich rekapitalisiert werden müssen", sagt Simon Tilford, CER. "Wer eine Zwangsabgabe auf Bankkonten einführt, riskiert, dass Bürger in Spanien oder Italien zwei Mal darüber nachdenken, ob sie ihr Geld den heimischen Banken überlassen."
Interview on 'Do Britain’s European ties damage its prosperity?'
22 March 2013
Eurosceptics claim that EU membership has become a major drag on the British economy. If Britain left the EU, they argue, it would be freed of irksome continental influences like regulations and protectionism – and would consequently become freer, more prosperous and truer to its globalising nature.
Cyprus needs to tax Russian deposit holders
22 March 2013
The Guardian
It's the best solution to banking crisis in Cyprus. It would alienate Moscow, but bring greater EU support
Life, liberty and the pursuit of oil
21 March 2013
European Voice
Katinka Barysch, deputy director of the CER, a think-tank based in London, points out that these are already important states in the transit of gas to the EU and are destined to become more important as new reserves in central Asia are developed.
The EU battle Cameron could win
20 March 2013
Prospect
In his big European speech on 23rd January, David Cameron said he wanted radical reform of the European Union or, failing that, a series of unilateral opt-outs.
Cyprus bailout incites turmoil as blame flies
18 March 2013
The New York Times
Officials scrambled to explain what went wrong and how best to control the damage of what Philip Whyte, a senior research fellow at the CER, called a “completely irrational decision” to make bank depositors liable for part of the bailout.