Press quotes

  • Royaume-Uni: retour du débat sur l'appartenance à l'Europe
    Les Echos, 04 July 2012

    Charles Grant, un expert du Centre for European Reform, estime qu'il y a 70 % de chance qu'un référendum soit organisé après les élections de 2015 et 50 % de chance qu'il se conclue par un « non » à l'Europe. ...

  • Europe à la carte
    The Guardian, 04 July 2012

    David Rennie, political editor of The Economist, puts it this way in an excellent report, 'The Continent or the Open Sea: Does Britain have a European future?', published by the CER.

  • Europe's banking chief wields new power in crisis
    The New York Times, 02 July 2012

    "Mario Draghi is going to be damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. Damned if he does because he'll be seen in Germany as caving in to irresponsible and profligate countries in the periphery," said Philip Whyte, a senior research fellow at the CER in London.

  • Tory MPs look to Norway model on EU
    Financial Times, 02 July 2012

    Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, said that given this situation the Swiss bilateral model is probably more attractive for British eurosceptics than the Norwegian one. But he added that this model comes with its own problems: "Being out of the trade block could hurt UK manufacturers such as the car industry if the right exemptions cannot be negotiated."

  • What now, frau Merkel?
    The New York Times, 01 July 2012

    The result for Simon Tilford, chief economist at the CER, looks like this: "Germany is much more vulnerable than German policymakers appear to believe. Germany's strength is exaggerated and its weaknesses downplayed."

  • EU summit opens amid signs of a standoff
    International Herald Tribune, 29 June 2012

    "The current disconnect between Paris and Berlin is destabilising the euro," Charles Grant, the director of the CER, wrote this week. "In the long run the euro is not sustainable without a grand bargain between France and Germany."

  • Irland zeigt wie es geht
    Die Zeit, 29 June 2012

    Simon Tilford, ein Ökonom der für den Londoner think-tank Centre for European Reform arbeitet, beschreibt die Dynamik, die beide Länder in den Abgrund trieb als "eine Art des kollektiven Wahnsinns".

  • EU summit: Live blog
    Financial Times, 28 June 2012

    Charles Grant, the director for the CER has blogged ahead of the summit, a good primer for anyone wondering what's at stake. "Like many other EU summits over the past two years, the European Council meeting in Brussels on June 28th and 29th has been billed as a 'last chance' to save the euro.

  • Europe's divided leaders grope for summit breakthrough
    The Guardian, 28 June 2012

    "Unless France and Germany can soon agree on a grand bargain, disaster may loom," said Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform.

  • Why Washington and Moscow want a backroom deal over Syria
    The Guardian, 28 June 2012

    Edward Burke of the CER said "Moscow knows the writing is on the wall for the Assad regime and that its slow demise will likely precipitate an increasingly deadly civil war that will damage Russian interests ...An attempt by Russia to negotiate a political transition should be welcomed.