Press quotes

  • Unione politica il traguardo e non l'alibi per stare fermi
    Il sole 24 Ore, 02 September 2012

    Ho appena letto la nota di Katinka Baysch, vice-direttore del CER di Londra, che il 29 agosto segnala sul sito dello stesso Cer il duplice rischio che l'Europa dell'Spd appaia ai tedeschi la "transfer union" che essi non accettano e agli europei del Sud...

  • Weidemann resignation report turns up heat on ECB's Draghi
    The Guardian, 31 August 2012

    Simon Tilford of the CER said that to have a significant impact on Italian and Spanish borrowing costs, the ECB plan must banish investor concerns that the two countries' membership of the eurozone would ever be threatened.

  • Let the Bundesbank chief resign if he wants to, it'll be no bad thing
    The Daily Telegraph, 31 August 2012

    The problem has been brilliantly summarised by Simon Tilford, of the CER, in his latest blog. Here's just a taste. "Countries facing depressions and rapidly weakening inflation typically face very low borrowing costs: investors invest in government bonds for a want of profitable alternatives. ..

  • Ukraine turns to China for cash to duck vote-damaging deal terms
    Bloomberg, 30 August 2012

    "Ukraine is trying to avoid the conditionality that comes with EU, IMF or Russian money," said Tomas Valasek of the CER in London. "Europe wants reform and transparency in the energy sector and Russia wants control of key industries. That creates political difficulties before the elections."

  • Can imagination save the eurozone?
    Market Watch, 30 August 2012

    Hugo Brady of the Centre for European Reform, recently proposed the concept of a political union with a 15-year expiration date, giving European citizens the ability to cede powers to a federal center but only for a fixed period. Could it work? Could a bit of imagination save the European Union? Let’s hope so, because, as McNamara warned, logic may not.

  • Europe contracts, concerns widen
    The Wall Street Journal, 14 August 2012

    "There's no doubt that some countries have no option but to pursue tight fiscal policies at the moment, but the extent of fiscal austerity across the euro zone as a whole is counter-productive," said Simon Tilford of the CER.

  • Solving inflation divide crucial step for euro
    Market Watch, 14 August 2012

    "Assuming inflation falls to zero in Spain, Italy and the peripheral trio, and averages around 2% in France and the Benelux trio, it follows that inflation in Germany (plus Austria and Finland) will need to rise to around 4%," Simon Tilford, chief economist at the CER wrote in a recent blog post.

  • The Great British Brexit
    BBC News, 10 August 2012

    It's summed up in a quote from Philip Whyte of the CER: "Three views of the UK are now common across Europe: that it is unreliable and unconstructive; that it is an active distraction from solving the region's worst crisis since World War Two; and that it appears to be heading for the EU's exit door".

  • Une troisième option pour l'Europe: une union politique qui ne durerait que 15 ans
    Express.be, 03 August 2012

    L'euro est un Frankenstein qui pourrait détruire son créateur", affirme Hugo Brady, chercheur au Centre for European Reform, qui a également collaboré comme consultant pour la Commission Européenne et la Chambre des Lords britanniques.

  • Skies growing cloudy for Anglo-French UAV project
    Defence News, 28 July 2012

    Tomas Valasek of the Centre for European Reform, wrote in a recent article that while the British government and the previous French administration saw it as an exclusively bilateral affair, the new administration views UAV co-operation as the core of a wider European effort.