New French foreign minister faces baptism of fire

Written by Charles Grant, 17 May 2012

But Charles Grant, director of the CER told FRANCE 24 that such is Assad's defiance of international pressure that "no matter what France says towards Syria it will not make any difference".

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http://www.france24.com/en/20120517-new-french-foreign-minister-laurent-fabius-alain-juppe-iran-syria-afghanistan

France-Allemagne, deux conceptions de la puissance

Le Monde

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Pour Charles Grant, du Centre for European Reform, à Londres, "l'Allemagne est le grand problème" de la politique européenne de sécurité, car soit elle reste soit neutre, soit elle défend ses propres intérêts.

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Financial Times

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The missing bit of the narrative is the role played by allies of the UK. The latter-day Bluchers vital to the defeat of a Tobin tax were German industrialists, according to Simon Tilford of the Centre for European Reform.

German elections 2013: 'Do as we do' will remain the message to Europe

The Guardian

10 September 2013

"However the Germans vote on 22 September, Berlin's attitude to the EU is not going to change much," Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, wrote this week. Most analysts agree.

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The New York Times

08 September 2013

"It could potentially be very significant," said Simon Tilford, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform in London. "Political instability in Italy is more of a concern than in Spain, Portugal or Greece."

Syria crisis reveals new paradigm

The New York Times

05 September 2013

The vote in Parliament "could turn out to be the signal for a strategic shift in favor of insularity," said Ian Bond, a foreign policy specialist at the CER. British lawmakers risked "sending the message that in the future the UK will be content to stay on the sidelines, regardless of what is happening in distant lands."

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