Press quotes

  • Shale gas popularity rising but experts remain divided
    Hürriyet Daily News, 29 November 2010

    The new US shale phenomenon is tied to favorable legislation on excavation permits, isolated and uninhabited areas and the growth of small, "technology-savvy" energy companies, according to Katinka Barysch, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform.

  • Splits in eurozone emerge amid debt crisis
    New York Times, 29 November 2010

    "I don't think it's sustainable in the absence of a much greater degree of political and economic integration," said Simon Tilford, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, a research institute based in London. … "It's very hard for any economy to flourish in the teeth of fiscal austerity of this magnitude — let alone those that can't devalue," Mr Tilford said. … Mr Tilford, of the Centre for European Reform, is skeptical of that argument.

  • 'Annus Horribilis' for Europe's year-old Lisbon reforms may lead to new treaty
    Jakarta Globe, 28 November 2010

    "Is the European Union functioning moderately better? Yes!" said Hugo Brady, of the Centre for European Reform. … "Ashton, whose new diplomatic corps also officially begins business on Wednesday, had an even tougher job to do than Van Rompuy … She had to fight to get inside the bureaucracy … It's now a grumpy teenager, hopeful after its preadolescent difficulties of growing up."

  • Migration woes to colour key Africa-EU summit
    The Gazette, 26 November 2010

    "What's needed is a special summit on immigration, but it's still early days," said Hugo Brady of the Centre for European Reform. … "The fate of the EU and Africa are joined together over the next 20 years … If you don't put in place a legitimate system to deal with immigration there'll be problems, aggravated by climate change decreasing farming land in Africa."

  • Analysis: Thinking the unthinkable - a eurozone breakup
    CNBC, 26 November 2010

    "My guess is that for quite a few years yet policymakers will do whatever they can to save this thing," said Katinka Barysch, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform. "If you sit in London, it's doomed. They don't understand the political investment. They look at the bond spreads and think it's doomed."

  • NATO, Russia to co-operate on missile defence
    The Prague Post, 24 November 2010

    "It comes down on two different sides: One is the obvious one that is if this is a real resetting of relations with Russian, everyone benefits, and Central Europe will benefit the most," said Tomas Valasek, a foreign policy and defence expert with London-based think-tank the Centre for European Reform.

  • Ireland bailout reignites fears about the future of the euro
    Deutsche Welle, 24 November 2010

    Turning the eurozone into a larger Germany, says Philip Whyte with the Centre for European Reform in London, could have adverse consequences - not only for the country itself but also for Europe and even the rest of the world. He maintains that "a more German eurozone" would be afflicted by chronically weak demand, debilitating cycles of competitive wage cuts and prolonged economic slumps in the deficit countries. Like many others, Whyte agrees the time has come to make some tough decisions.

  • Domino effect hits Europe
    RIA Novosti, 24 November 2010

    Charles Grant, director of the authoritative British think-tank, the Centre for European Reform, argues that the Europeans will have no option but to rebuild the EU on Germany's federative model. The Germanic nations, including the Austrians, the Dutch and the Scandinavians, will be only too glad to see that happen, enthusiastic as they are about Berlin's on-going efforts to restore order to the eurozone. Other EU nations are displaying distinct resistance to this prospect of German domination.

  • Britain can't escape the euro crisis
    Global Post, 23 November 2010

    But the assistance is "an act of self-preservation" rather than an act of friendly charity, according to Philip Whyte, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform. "Implicit in the bailout of Ireland's banks is the bailout of one's own banking system."

  • Ireland refutes the German perspective
    Financial Times, 23 November 2010

    As Philip Whyte has noted in a paper [Why Germany is not a model for the eurozone] for the pro-European Centre for European Reform, the eurozone is far too large to play such a role in the world economy.