Britain & EU member-states
CER podcast: The EU referendum - a fact free debate
20 June 2016
Charles Grant chats with colleagues Simon Tilford, Rem Korteweg, Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, John Springford and Sophia Besch to discuss common EU myths and how to improve the quality of the debate.
Ten things Cameron should do if we vote "Remain"
16 June 2016
Prospect
If the UK votes on 23rd June to stay in the EU, Britain and its partners will face a choice: to carry on with their previous dysfunctional relationship, or to create something better.
Don’t panic! Turkey won’t be joining the EU anytime soon
16 June 2016
The Spectator
The Leave campaign sees the EU-Turkey accession talks as a reason to drum up fears about migration. In fact, it is a red herring.
Unnoticed by Brexiteers, the idea of an EU super-state is quietly dying
16 June 2016
The Telegraph
There are some things that British Eurosceptics and European federalists tend to agree on. They think the EU is moving inevitably towards a federal future.
TOK FM: Dlaczego o Brexicie rozmawiają tylko mężczyźni?
16 June 2016
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska talks to Agnieszka Lichnerowicz of TOK FM about the Brexit campaign.
Share Radio: EU Debate
16 June 2016
The Chancellor George Osborne says he'll slash public spending and increase taxes in an emergency Budget to tackle a £30bn "black hole" if the UK votes to leave the European Union. That could include raising income and inheritance taxes and slashing the NHS budget.
UCL debate: 'Highlights of Brexit: Its consequences for other member-states'
15 June 2016
UCL debate on; What are the likely effects of Brexit on politics within other member states? Would Brexit change remaining member states’ relationships with the EU? Would it affect decision-making within member states?
CER podcast: The impact of a Brexit on different British regions
14 June 2016
John Springford talks to Sophia Besch about euroscepticism and hostility to immigration in England’s regions outside of London and the South East.
Die EU zwischen ökonomischer Integration und politischer Machbarkeit
13 June 2016
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
The debate on the referendum on UK membership of the European Union is dominated by economic arguments. How successful is the EU from an economic point of view? What lessons can be drawn from the referendum debate?
If we leave the EU, other countries will think we're a bunch of spoilt children. They'll be right
10 June 2016
The Telegraph
Seen from outside the UK, Britain’s Brexit debate has taken on an otherworldly quality. Foreigners struggle to see how the UK could flirt with something so destructive to its own interests.
CER podcast: Debate on - Can Britain join Norway in the EEA?
09 June 2016
Could Britain end up in the EEA? The CER couldn't agree, so we decided to have a debate between our director Charles Grant and senior research fellow John Springford.
Es könnte passieren, gleichsam aus Versehen
09 June 2016
Die Presse
The Remain camp is winning the economic and business cases in the referendum race, but immigration fears and low turnout could tip the scales towards Leave.
How Britain may leave the EU and end up with just as many immigrants
08 June 2016
The Times
Suppose the British decide for Brexit. About 70 per cent of MPs in the House of Commons favour Remain. That doesn’t mean that MPs would ignore the referendum result.
Why leaving the EU really does mean Brexit
08 June 2016
The Telegraph
I keep meeting people who believe a vote to leave the EU won't really mean that we leave. There are at least three reasons why British voters would not be given a chance to change their mind in a second referendum.
ARD: Die Story im Ersten - Albtraum Brexit
06 June 2016
Das Rennen zwischen Befürwortern und Gegnern eines Austritts aus der EU ist denkbar knapp. Doch was kommt nach einem Brexit?
Brexonomics: The five most insidious anti-EU myths debunked
03 June 2016
City A.M.
Eurosceptics peddle a raft of myths about the economic costs of EU membership. These have little, if any, empirical basis, but Brexiteers cling to them doggedly however many times they are refuted by proper academic research.
CER podcast: EU capitals weigh in on the Brexit debate
02 June 2016
Sophia Besch chats to her peers about how their home country's capitals view the Brexit debate in the UK.
KE będzie unikać eskalacji sporu z Polską do brytyjskiego referendum
01 June 2016
Rzeczpospolita
The European Commission would like to avoid escalation of the political row with the Polish government over rule of law at least until the British referendum on its membership in the EU.
Pretiravanje na eni strani, laži na drugi
30 May 2016
Delo (Slovenia)
Britanski volivci se po besedah Charlesa Granta počasi zavedajo, da vseh podrobnosti o EU nikoli ne bodo razumeli.
CER podcast: Five questions on the implications of a Brexit for EU institutions
24 May 2016
In the fourth episode of a series of podcasts on the implications of a Brexit for the EU, Sophia Besch talks to CER research fellow Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska.