Britain & EU member-states
Judy Asks: Can Merkel pull through?
22 November 2017
Carnegie Europe
When I floated the idea of a German minority government in early September and argued that there were upsides to it, the reaction was critical, bordering on hostile.
Keine Angst vor dem Gespenst Minderheitsregierung!
21 November 2017
Die Welt
Seit die FDP die Verhandlungen über Jamaika platzen ließ, geht in Deutschland ein Gespenst um: das Gespenst der Minderheitsregierung.
BBC Newsnight: German coalition talks collapse
20 November 2017
Sophia Besch, research fellow at the Centre for European Reform speaks to Newsnight about the collapse in the German coalition talks (from 03.05).
Channel 4 News: Michel Barnier
20 November 2017
Michel Barnier speaking at the Centre for European Reform conference in Brussels (from 23.25 mins).
Speech by Michel Barnier at 'The future of the EU' conference
20 November 2017
European Commission
Michel Barnier spoke this at our 'The future of the EU' conference, click here to watch or read his speech.
Barnier says EU will not compromise standards in future UK trade deal
20 November 2017
The Guardian
Chief Brexit negotiator tells a CER conference today any move to abandon European laws and regulations will complicate agreement.
'Putting politics above prosperity' – wait, isn't that what the Brexiteers are doing?
17 November 2017
The Guardian
David Davis's ill-advised remark to an audience of German businessmen reveals an alarming ignorance about the way in which the EU is conducting negotiations.
Deutsche Welle: Inside Europe: A call to relaunch and reform the European Union
10 November 2017
The European Union is currently grappling with a number of challenges from migration to Brexit. Amidst that backdrop, the Centre for European Reform or CER think-tank, has just issued a blue-print for change called ‘Relaunching the EU’. So what are its key proposals? Charles Grant is director of the CER.
Populismo: ¿cultura o economía?
10 November 2017
ESglobal
¿Son los factores económicos los culpables del ascenso del populismo o se trata de una reacción cultural? La respuesta es una mezcla de ambos.
Unia nie chce ukarać Wielkiej Brytanii – Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska w rozmowie z UKpoliticsPL
09 November 2017
UK Politics Po Polsku
UKpoliticsPL: Jaki kierunek negocjacji z Wielką Brytanią przyjęła Unia Europejska?
How Brexit will unfold – Britain will get a deal, but it'll come at a price
09 November 2017
The Guardian
The UK will end up paying €50bn and accepting a hard Irish border: 10 predictions based on my conversations with people on both sides.
CER podcasts: Relaunching the EU
08 November 2017
The CER has launched a major new report ‘Relaunching the EU’. In this podcast mini-series, CER researchers explain some of the reports main recommendations.
Fast forward to two-speed Europe
07 November 2017
Politico
Macron's calls for a more flexible bloc will make it more attractive to new members.
BBC Radio 4: Brexit a guide for the perplexed
06 November 2017
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska speaks to BBC Radio 4 about UK's sovereignty post-Brexit.
Marketplace: Brexit: Let's call the whole thing off?
02 November 2017
Is Britain having second thoughts about Brexit? And if it fails to secure a satisfactory exit deal, could it call the whole thing off? “I think it’s possible but unlikely,” said John Springford of the pro-Europe Centre for European Reform. “If we were going to reverse Brexit without a huge backlash, there would have to be quite a significant shift in public opinion. But we’ve had lots and lots of opinion polls, and they all produce a similar result as last year’s referendum: about fifty-fifty,” Springford said.
BBC Radio 4: Europe Unbound
31 October 2017
Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform speaks to Edward Stourton about how the European Union might change after Britain leaves. "The wind is back in Europe's sails", according to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
What explains the "Brexodus" from DExEU?
31 October 2017
Prospect
The Department for Exiting the European Union has slowly haemorrhaged civil servants ever since its inception last year.
France 24: Much more work to be done after Brexit summit
21 October 2017
“Officials I talk to, in both the UK government and the European Commission, are fairly optimistic that in December the EU will declare that sufficient progress has been made [to move onto phase two]," said Charles Grant, an analyst at the Centre for European Reform in London, in an interview with FRANCE 24. “But of course that is not certain," he added.
LSE public lecture: Hard Brexit, soft Brexit, no Brexit?
19 October 2017
2016 was unquestionably a year of political and economic shocks with Brexit and the election of President Trump. The UK elections in June 2017 created further difficulties for the Brexit negotiations with the Conservative and Democratic Unionist party agreement which left the Brexit process in uncertain territory.
Judy Asks: Does May need Merkel for a Brexit deal?
18 October 2017
Carnegie Europe
No, Theresa May needs to impose some discipline and unity on her own troops in order to achieve a workable deal.