Press quotes

  • EU budget: What Britain pays and where it goes
    Channel 4 News, 31 October 2012

    Philip Whyte of the CER told Channel 4 News that despite an overly complicated structure, reducing the UK's contribution would not result in a more efficient EU budget: "They are right that the structure is crazy. There is a huge appetite for reform of that, but cutting the budget will not help."

  • Budget européen : désaveu majeur pour Cameron
    Les Echos, 31 October 2012

    Charles Grant, un spécialiste de ces questions du CER, estime cependant que le Royaume-Uni pourrait continuer à prospérer en Europe même s'il n'appartient pas à la zone euro. Pour cela, il doit cependant se trouver des amis et des alliés pour influencer les décisions de Bruxelles, a-t-il expliqué dans un point de vue au Financial Times.

  • Wrangling over Europe’s budget gets under way
    The New York Times, 30 October 2012

    "The politics of the EU budget are always nasty, but they may be nastier this time partly because of Mr Cameron trying to be Mrs Thatcher," said Stephen Tindale, an associate fellow at the CER in London.

  • Britain on slippery slope towards EU referendum
    Gulf Times, 26 October 2012

    "Cameron held the line quite well in the first 18 months of government. But now he is out of his depth," said Simon Tilford, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform.

  • Britain's opt-out on EU police and crime laws raises eyebrows
    EurActiv, 26 October 2012

    The CER, warned the decision would have "major implications" for Britain's security. "If Britain uses this 'block opt-out', it will lose access to a raft of cross-border agreements and databases designed to help EU countries maintain security," Hugo Brady of the CER, said in a recent policy paper.

  • Cameron et l'Europe, l'impossible équation
    Les Echos, 22 October 2012

    Cependant, il est difficile d'imaginer que les partenaires de la Grande-Bretagne lui laissent la main libre sur ces sujets. Comme l'explique Hugo Brady, du CER, s'il veut continuer à participer à ce marché unique qui est aujourd'hui la raison d'être de son adhésion à l'Europe...

  • In the picture: The EU's October summit
    Financial Times, 18 October 2012

    Taking a step back, Philip Whyte at the Centre for European Reform argues that the initial June report from the gang of four "marked an important departure, because its focus shifted to correcting the eurozone's architectural flaws rather than the behaviour of its members."

  • Brexit: Europe loses patience with London
    Financial Times, 18 October 2012

    Beyond the realm of politics, investors in Britain have been slow to wake up to the implications of what the Centre for European Reform has dubbed "Brexit".

  • EU leaders clash on fiscal powers as Greeks protest
    USA Today, 18 October 2012

    "It would involve countries handing over to an unelected appointed figures the right to veto their budgets, so in terms of the implications for democratic accountability it's certainly very radical," said Simon Tilford, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform in London.

  • Britain takes a step back from Europe
    International Herald Tribune, 15 October 2012

    "This is the opening shot in a long and controversial negotiation over which European police and judicial co-operation Britain wants to stay in, and which it is allowed to stay in," said Hugo Brady, of the CER.