Research
Q: With Europe at the top of the Tory party conference agenda, is Cameron's EU renegotiation doomed to fail?
05 October 2015
City A.M
Simon Tilford is deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, says No.
David Cameron: I will ignore Europe's top court on prisoner voting
04 October 2015
The Telegraph
Camino Mortera, of the CER, said the case is "absolutely crucial" for Britain's renegotiation, which includes a far more ambitious aim of banning EU citizens from claiming in-work benefits for four years.
Migrant influx costs Europe, but economy could benefit
02 October 2015
Voice of America
Germany expects up to 1 million asylum seekers this year alone. The upfront costs of housing, education and social care are considerable — but it could stimulate the economy, argues Christian Odendahl of the Centre for European Reform.
What does Britain want from the EU?
30 September 2015
BBC News
As Charles Grant from the Centre for European Reform, says: "The British government has not convinced many of its partners that its concerns about the relationship between the euro and the single market are justified."
Poland: Warsaw's stance will remain uncertain until after the October elections
30 September 2015
Transatlantic relations
Poles will vote in parliamentary elections on 25 October. The Civic Platform party has been in a governing coalition with the Polish Peasant Party for the last eight years.
EU 'ring of friends' turns into ring of fire
29 September 2015
Daily Mail
Ian Bond from the CER, called the current policy a "mess of inconsistency and wishful thinking". The last review in 2010-11 had urged a focus on promoting "deep and sustainable democracy", he noted. Yet since then two countries - Libya and Syria - had fallen into near anarchy, one - Egypt - had had a military coup, and repression of civil society and the media had worsened in several, including Azerbaijan, Bond said.
Britain can't be Norway, and Eurosceptics know this
29 September 2015
The Telegraph
Norway's relationship with the EU is being pushed as an alternative for Britain, but outers know it wouldn't work
Catalonia independence election: Barcelona exit could hurt Spain's already sluggish economy
28 September 2015
International Business Times
"It’s clearly not going to go away," Tilford said of the independence movement, noting Catalonia is "a net fiscal contributor to much of the country. It pays more in than it gets out."
Five concurrent crises push Europe into the realm of chaos
27 September 2015
Financial Times
As Simon Tilford of the CER, recently argued, there is no way the eurozone will be able to shrug off the global downturn because its post-crisis recovery strategy rests on net exports. The eurozone is headed for a current account surplus of 3.5 per cent of gross domestic product this year.
A troubled euro needs a softer Germany
25 September 2015
The World Today: Chatham House
For those of us who think that the European Union is a good idea, the euro’s travails in recent years have been very trying. We had long assumed that the euro would encourage trade and investment across frontiers, thereby deepening the single market and boosting competition.
Judy Asks: Will the refugee crisis destroy the EU?
23 September 2015
Carnegie Europe
Every week, a selection of leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world.
UE przegłosowała państwa Europy Środkowej
23 September 2015
Wirtualna Polska
"Sprawna prezydencja przewodząca Radzie szuka kompromisu i po głosowanie sięga dopiero wtedy, gdy nie da się go osiągnąć. I wydaje się, że prezydencja luksemburska starała się o kompromis do ostatniej chwili" - mówi Agata Gostyńska, analityk londyńskiego CER.
Polen er den tikkende bombe under EU's asylplan
23 September 2015
Politiken
"Lov og Retfærdighedspartiet er ikke alene imod tanken om kvoter, partiet betragter faktisk hele kommissionens forslag som et angreb på polsk suverænitet", siger Agata Gostynska, der er ekspert i polsk europapolitik hos tænketanken CER i London.
EU ministers gather in hopes of ending rift over migrants
22 September 2015
Financial Times
“It is a real European problem: just looking at the geography makes that clear,” said Camino Mortera-Martinez at the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank. “But the sad thing is that many EU member states seem to be following just national logic.”
EU largely positive on Tsipras win
21 September 2015
Voice of America
Chief economist for the London-based Centre for European Reform Christian Odendahl says many observers aren’t surprised by the results. Now, he adds, comes the hard part.“The biggest issue that Tsipras will now [face] will be debt relief. He put it at the top of his agenda. But the problem is that the Europeans are not going to comprise much unless he tackles some of the tough reforms and austerity measures that have been agreed in the last deal,” Odendahl says.
Shock-resistant eurozone appears far off
17 September 2015
The Wall Street Journal
There are some ways to unblock the logjam. Rather than immediately force banks to hold significant capital on their holdings of government bonds, European regulators could set limits for how many bonds from one country a bank can hold, suggests Christian Odendahl, of the CER.
Fed's decision could pressure European Central Bank to step up stimulus efforts
17 September 2015
The Wall Street Journal
“There’s been this assumption in the eurozone that Americans would raise rates and the European economy would be able to rely on a strong US economy and a strong dollar,” said Simon Tilford of the CER.
Judy Asks: Should the West work with Russia on Syria?
16 September 2015
Carnegie Europe
Every week, a selection of leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world.
Лейбористська трагедія
15 September 2015
Den
Які ризики несе для Британії обрання Джеремі Корбіна лідером партії робітників.
The European walled-garden: What's the root cause? what's the solution?
14 September 2015
Open democracy
The EU expanded eastwards during the 90s and 00s did just the kind of thing we wanted: it was a force for openness that was making concrete policy to weaken the grip of the exlcuisve nation-stage.