Press quotes

  • New plan aims to end European debt crisis
    Voice of America, 09 December 2011

    But Simon Tilford at the CER, says the new treaty does nothing to solve Europe's debt crisis. "The problem is that fiscal austerity will not solve this crisis, at least not alone. Fiscal austerity has in many ways become part of the crisis.

  • Brussels summit 'will not resolve euro crisis'
    Channel 4 News, 09 December 2011

    Simon Tilford, from the CER agreed, "This week's summit will do little to solve the fundamentals of this crisis."... Mr Tilford told Channel 4 News the summit should have agreed a fully-fledged fiscal union. Instead, all it had done was tinker. "This is little different from what the eurozone already had: the stability and growth pact.

  • Warum geriet Cameron so ins Abseits?
    Bild, 09 December 2011

    "Der Premierminister hat den Euroskeptikern einen Fleischbrocken hingeworfen", sagt Simon Tilford von der Denkfabrik Centre for European Reform.

  • EU crisis: Germany the 'unquestioned' master of Europe, says analysts
    The Economic Times, 08 December 2011

    "For the first time in the history of the EU, Germany is the unquestioned leader, and France is number two," said Charles Grant, of the CER, citing growing inquality ever since the financial crisis struck in 2008.

  • France, Germany push balanced budget requirement
    USA Today, 08 December 2011

    "I would find it surprising if they are not going to offer any more than this," said Simon Tilford at the CER. "If this is all that is on the table then the future for the euro is very, very bleak indeed."

  • Now the Franco-German question
    Financial Times, 08 December 2011

    As Charles Grant of the CER has observed, the proposals for a stability union presented to the Brussels summit were essentially written in Germany, even if the odd page was edited in Paris.

  • European financial tax - is the City worth saving?
    Channel 4 News, 07 December 2011

    It is not just eurosceptics who are opposed. Simon Tilford of the CER, told Channel 4 News: "I think a transactions tax would only work if agreed globally. Europe moving unilaterally would achieve little.

  • Will Europe achieve a solution at summit?
    USA Today, 07 December 2011

    "The euro crisis is transforming the balance of power in Europe," said Charles Grant, director of the CER. "Germany is emerging, for the first time in the EU's history, as the unquestioned leader."

  • Crisis batters EU's longtime cherished notion of members' equality
    The New York Times, 07 December 2011

    "Germany is the unquestioned leader of Europe," said Charles Grant, director of the CER. "France is definitely subordinate to Germany and Britain has less influence than at any time I can recall.

  • EU seeks to save the euro, but S&P isn't convinced
    Associated Press, 06 December 2011

    "If this is all we get it's really very bad news for the future of the euro," said Simon Tilford, chief economist at London's Centre for European Reform.