Press quotes

  • A recovery in Europe? Really?
    Reuters, 09 March 2012

    "The case against Europe's growth strategy is that it is all supply and no demand," said Philip Whyte at the CER. "Fiscal policy is being tightened too rapidly. The more certain EU countries do to balance their budgets, the more output contracts," he said in a recent paper.

  • Syria: Getting Aid in and Assad Out
    Voice of Russia, 08 March 2012

    A debate on the violence in Syria and asks whether world powers should assist the anti-government forces and provide more humanitarian aid to suffering civilians. He was joined by Edward Burke of the CER

  • Border 
control: How a fear of foreigners is gripping Europe when its economy needs them most
    Time Magazine, 05 March 2012

    "At the time that Europe needs more market-driven reforms, the political climate for those kinds of reform has become very unfavorable," says Simon Tilford, chief economist of the CER in London. "People feel threatened."

  • Border 
control: How a fear of foreigners is gripping Europe when its economy needs them most
    Time Magazine, 05 March 2012

    "For the last generation, the idea that European integration is the future was something you just didn't question," says Hugo Brady, a senior research fellow in Brussels at the CER.

  • Canny Belgian poised for second term at EU helm
    Agence France Presse, 01 March 2012

    "If politics is the art of the possible, he's perfect," said analyst Hugo Brady of the CER. "If he wasn't there we'd miss him. We need a steady hand," he said. "He's contributed to the orderly holding of European Councils," or summits.

  • EU leaders hand Van Rompuy 2nd term as Council president, also name him head of euro summits
    The Washington Post, 01 March 2012

    "I think he’s been as effective as he could have been, given the political constraints," said Simon Tilford, chief economist at London's CER. "He's managed to broker some compromises."

  • 'Grey mouse' EU chairman picked for second term
    EU Observer, 01 March 2012

     "On balance, he has done a good job. You have to think about what it would have been like during the crisis if the old system - of rotating presidencies every six months - had still been in place," said Hugo Brady of the CER.

  • When Europe's worries turn from financial to economic
    The Wall Street Journal, 01 March 2012

    "Supply-side reforms, though necessary over the medium- to long term, are mostly irrelevant in the short term," says Philip Whyte of the CER in London. Though many governments see little alternative, Mr Whyte argues that fiscal policy is being tightened too rapidly.

  • Hollande takes campaign to London
    Financial Times, 29 February 2012

    "I don't see any reason why Hollande, if elected, would create problems for Franco-British defence collaboration," says Charles Grant, director of the CER. "On defence, Germany is not as reliable a partner for France as the British are."

  • Ireland to test voters' appetite for fiscal union
    Financial Times, 28 February 2012

    "Other Europeans may be surprised to know how much euroscepticism has increased in Ireland because of the perception that Ireland was forced into a bail-out it did not actually need at the time," said Hugo Brady of the Centre for European Reform.