Press quotes

  • Balkan democracies fray as anti-austerity boosts Orban followers
    Bloomberg Business Week, 26 July 2012

    Government moves in Hungary and Romania "suggest to me that this is still a generation that doesn’t have democratic instincts in their blood," Tomas Valasek of the CER, said July 18 by phone. "It takes more for the generational change to cycle some of the old politicians out of the system."

  • Greek dilemma: New terms, or exit
    The Wall Street Journal, 25 July 2012

    "We're talking about the troika as if it's a monolith, but I'm beginning to wonder if there aren't disagreements cropping up," said Philip Whyte, senior research fellow at the CER, a think-tank in London.

  • Miliband and Hollande 'turning tide against austerity'
    Politics.co.uk, 24 July 2012

    The British government's focus on consolidating the public finances and push through supply-side reforms is at odds with the new French president's instincts, according to Philip Whyte, a senior research fellow at the CER. "France is almost at the opposite end of that debate," he told politics.co.uk.

  • Cameron's EU stance is unsustainable and the sceptics know it
    New Statesman, 19 July 2012

    For further reading on UK relations with the EU, by far the best thing published recently is this excellent CER pamphlet 'The continent or the open sea: Does Britain have a European future?' by David Rennie of the Economist.

  • Europe: Dangerous eurozone limbo
    BBC News, 16 July 2012

    Simon Tilford from the CER summed it up in a paper like this: "Unfortunately, the agreed measures (at the summit) were modest and have already prompted a backlash in various countries, not least in Germany and the Netherlands. Indeed, much of what was agreed at the summit is unlikely to come into effect.

  • Big banks and think-tanks
    The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 12 July 2012

    EU-focused Centre for European Reform  is more open than most about its sponsors. It told the Bureau that 11 per cent of its £1.2m annual turnover came from the financial services industry. These funders include Barclays, Citi, Deutsche Bank AG, JP Morgan and UBS, to name a few.

  • Bientôt l'Europe sans la Grande-Bretagne?
    Le Monde, 12 July 2012

    "Il y a 50 chances sur 100 que Cameron ne puisse échapper à un référendum sur l'Europe au cours de la prochaine législature", dit le très europhile et très compétent Charles Grant, qui dirige à Londres le CER.

  • Un 49% de los británicos votaría por salirse de la UE en un referendum
    ABC.es, 12 July 2012

    En opinión de Charles Grant, director del Centre for European Reform, «la probabilidad de que el Reino Unido abandone de forma efectiva la UE antes de 2020 es del 50-50, la situación es muy seria», nos confesaba recientemente.

  • Think tank of the year awards 2012
    Prospect, 11 July 2012

    The Centre for European Reform has gained a strong reputation for its coverage of European economic affairs, especially because of the work of Simon Tilford, who has offered consistent clarity on Germany's role in the eurozone crisis.

  • The Socialist, the Tory, and the queen: Hollande visits UK
    The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2012

    "Despite the comments at the G-20, Cameron wants relations with France to work," says Philip Whyte of the CER in London. ... "Britain's continued membership in the EU is unclear … momentum for a referendum in three to four year is becoming nearly unstoppable ...