Research
BBC Radio 4 - PM: Deal or no deal with the EU
12 September 2019
Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform spoke to PM about the chances of a Brexit deal (from 07.00 mins).
The economic policy at the heart of Europe is creaking
12 September 2019
The Economist
“The single market is not a project people can get behind,” says Christian Odendahl of the Centre for European Reform. “It isn’t a vote-winner.”
ELIAMEP 15th European Seminar: Interview, Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska
12 September 2019
Interview with Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform (CER) in the margins of the 15th European Seminar of ELIAMEP (12-14 Semptember 2019).
Brexit LIVE: EU 'impressed with Johnson' and could 'scrap backstop' - Major breakthrough
12 September 2019
The Express
Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, said: “A deal between EU and UK is more likely than I had thought - my conclusion after 2 days of meetings with EU, member-state and UK officials.”He added Boris Johnson has made "quite a good impression" with Brussels chiefs.
This is an arms race
11 September 2019
Financial Times
A new report from the Centre for European Reform says the EU’s uncoordinated arms exports are undermining the bloc’s attempts to unite on foreign policy.
Ursulas udfordringer: Er Europas nye topchef i gang med at love for meget?
11 September 2019
Altinget
”Hun er åbenlyst meget ambitiøs på EU’s vegne. Måske for ambitiøs til, at hun kan få alle medlemslandene med,” siger seniorforsker Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, der er ekspert i de europæiske institutioner ved tænketanken Centre for European Reform (CER):
CER podcast: Negotiations after no-deal Brexit
11 September 2019
John Springford deciphers what has been happening in Westminster over the past week, and talks to Beth Oppenheim about what this means for the chances of a no-deal Brexit.
There's too much negativity about negative rates
10 September 2019
The Wall Street Journal
“It’s a general problem of bank profitability, and now they [the banks] can find someone — the ECB — to blame,” says Christian Odendahl, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform.
Zusammen raufen
10 September 2019
DGAP - IP-Die Zeitschrift
Ursula von der Leyen will „energisch auf eine Verteidigungsunion hinarbeiten“. Ohne eine europäische Waffenexportpolitik wird das schwierig
Brussels braced for EU trade and tech battles with US
10 September 2019
Financial Times
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, of the Centre for European Reform in Brussels, said: “The role of the executive vice-president gives Vestager extra clout in tough conversations with the US and in China but also with EU’s own member-states, which failed so far to speak with one voice on what Europe’s strategy should be.”
Silicon Valley's worst nightmare? Vestager is back as EC competition chief and more powerful than ever
10 September 2019
The Telegraph
Camino Mortera-Martinez, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, says the decision to couple competition law and digital issues for the first time is important. "Digital stands for everything, from security, to jobs, to the economy and civil rights," she explains. "By tying it to competition law, which has been used as a geopolitical tool, you risk alienating the partners that you need to work closely together with you.”
WDR: Schwarze Null schadet international
10 September 2019
Nicht nur der Investitionsbedarf in Deutschland spricht für einen Abschied von der „schwarzen Null“ meint Christian Odendahl vom Centre for European Reform: Auch die Weltwirtschaft und Deutschlands Ansehen könnten profitieren.
Want to see the economic damage already done by Brexit? Look to lost business investment
10 September 2019
Prospect
The Centre for European Reform, the Bank of England and others have estimated that by late 2018 the economy had already suffered lost growth of over 2 per cent compared to how it would have performed.
Salvini is gone for now, but the EU needs to act fast to ensure he doesn't come back
08 September 2019
The Independent
The birth of the new coalition government between the populist Five Star Movement and the centre-left Democratic Party marks the end of the latest Italian political crisis – for now.
A long, agonising divorce
08 September 2019
The Business Post
“Boris Johnson has been trying to convince his Tory colleagues that negotiations have advanced in the last week or so and that there’s a possible breakthrough on the way, but it seems to me that very few if anyone believes that this is the case,” Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, a senior research fellow at think-tank the Centre for European Reform. “What you hear in Brussels and in the European capitals is quite a lot of frustration.”
Rome presses reset
06 September 2019
Financial Times
Luigi Scazzieri at the Centre for European Reform makes a compelling case for the EU to afford Rome more leeway on the budget to ward off Salvini and help engineer a more moderate Five Star Movement.
La UE se resigna a una tercera prórroga del 'brexit' por el caos en Londres
06 September 2019
El Espanol
"Lo que siempre se ha asumido en los círculos de Bruselas es que sólo se concederá otra prórroga, que sería ya la tercera, si hay un cambio en la situación de Reino Unido. Un cambio en la posición negociadora o bien un cambio electoral. Las elecciones serían una justificación muy importante para conceder esa prórroga", relata a EL ESPAÑOL Camino Mortera, investigadora del Centre for European Reform (CER).
Boris Johnson's running out of Brexit options and the EU is getting impatient
06 September 2019
Forbes
John Springford, Deputy Director of the Centre for European Reform think-tank, said a deal appears less likely now after Johnson lost dozens of lawmakers and because the party which props up the government, Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, will not accept the backstop. “The general sense of proroguing parliament makes Johnson seem an unpredictable actor,” Springford added.
Italy-EU honeymoon has just started, but needs to last
06 September 2019
The Washington Post
“The new government is likely to be more responsible in economic terms than either the previous one, or a cabinet led by the League,” said Luigi Scazzieri, researcher for think-thank Centre for European Reform.“While it has no appetite for fiscal tightening, and wants to change eurozone fiscal rules, it will be much less willing to pick a fight with the EU,” he added.
Class CNBC - Milano Finanza: Ambrosetti '19: l'inchiodata di Berlino - Parla Christian Odendahl, capo economista del CER
06 September 2019
Christian Odendahl, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform spoke to CNBC about the EU economy.