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Tok FM: Co dalej z porozumieniem w sprawie Brexitu?

Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska
06 December 2017
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska speaks to Tok FM about the Commission’s eurozone proposals and Brexit.

The case for a slow-motion Brexit

Beth Oppenheim
05 December 2017
Prospect
Recent chaos in the negotiations shows that a two-year "implementation period" is entirely unrealistic.

Europe holds all the cards in the Brexit talks

01 December 2017
Financial Times
EU negotiators are confident Britain will eventually accept a deal on their terms.

CNBC: Brexit divorce bill price won't be most difficult issue to solve

24 November 2017
How the UK government approaches the Irish border will be "much more difficult," Ian Bond, director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform, told CNBC.

Judy Asks: Can Merkel pull through?

Christian Odendahl
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.

CER podcast series: How to save the EU

Sophia Besch, Christian Odendahl, Anand Menon, Yascha Mounk, Heather Grabbe, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Catherine Mann, Barry Eichengreen
22 November 2017
In November, the CER took more than 50 of Europe's top economists and political commentators to a conference on 'How to save the EU'.

Keine Angst vor dem Gespenst Minderheitsregierung!

Christian Odendahl
21 November 2017
Die Welt
Seit die FDP die Verhandlungen über Jamaika platzen ließ, geht in Deutschland ein Gespenst um: das Gespenst der Minderheitsregierung.

Speech by Michel Barnier at 'The future of the EU' conference

Michel Barnier
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.

BBC Newsnight: German coalition talks collapse

Sophia Besch
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).

'Putting politics above prosperity' – wait, isn't that what the Brexiteers are doing?

Christian Odendahl
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.

Populismo: ¿cultura o economía?

John Springford, Simon Tilford
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.

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.

Unia nie chce ukarać Wielkiej Brytanii – Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska w rozmowie z UKpoliticsPL

Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska
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

Sophia Besch, Charles Grant, Christian Odendahl, Luigi Scazzieri, John Springford
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

Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska
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.