Press quotes

  • Conflicting goals complicate an effort to forge a transatlantic trade deal
    The New York Times, 12 June 2013

    Simon Tilford, chief economist at the CER in London, is more optimistic than Mr Elliott but sees "a risk the whole thing will get hijacked and there will be so many exemptions and opt-outs that the meaning of the exercise will be limited."

  • Tusk says he won't run for EC presidency
    Warsaw Business Journal, 11 June 2013

    In April this year, Hugo Brady from the CER, reignited the talk. “Germany might back Tusk in order to cement Berlin’s political alliance with Warsaw and because it is time for someone from one of the newer member-states to get a top job,” he wrote.

  • EU refuses to co-operate on security
    The New York Times, 10 June 2013

    “Apart from a very few countries, such as France and Britain, the Europeans have been very complacent about strategic affairs,” said Rem Korteweg, of the CER. "It’s as if the world outside does not affect them."

  • David Cameron: The good European
    The New Statesman, 10 June 2013

    The PM sees the EU as part of the solution, not the problem for the UK economy - a brave position to take as leader of today's Tory party... For more on that, and other rebuttals of the anti-EU case, I recommend this article by Katinka Barysch of the CER.

  • Down so long that it looks like up
    The New York Times, 06 June 2013

    "Policy-makers have a strong interest in the current strategy's appearing to work", said Simon Tilford of the CER. "Even the faintest glimmer of hope is interpreted as a sign of recovery." But Mr Tilford said it was clear that Europe was already trapped in the same kind of doldrums that becalmed Japan for several decades.

  • EU-Russia: Stale romance...
    The Voice of Russia (Radio), 06 June 2013

    We'll try to get a better understanding of why Russian-EU relations are running out of steam, and is the EU really likely to benefit from stirring ill feelings towards one of its biggest partners. We are discussing it with our guest speakers; Ian Bond, the Director of foreign policy at the CER, Eleonora Tafuro, Dmitry Suslov, and Dr Tatiana Romanova.

  • Unia Europejska krytyczna wobec Rosji
    Rzeczpospolita, 04 June 2013

    A własność prywatna nie jest chroniona – tłumaczy „Rz" Ian Bond, ekspert Centre for European Reform w Londynie. UE wie, że tendencje w Rosji są bardzo niebezpieczne i w tej sprawie panują bardzo zbliżone poglądy. Skończył się czas głębokich podziałów w sprawach Rosji.

  • Eurozone retreats from austerity - but only as far as 'austerity lite'
    The Guardian, 30 May 2013

    "I don't think anything has fundamentally changed in Europe as yet, although it probably will at some point. All they have done is take into account that when economies grow much more slowly there are obvious implications for tax revenues," said Simon Tilford of the CER.

  • Der Euro-Ausstieg liegt näher als wir denken
    Die Welt, 29 May 2013

    "Die ungeheuren Konsequenzen eines Ausstiegs aus dem Euro haben bisher gegen einen solchen Schritt gesprochen", sagt Simon Tilford, Chefökonom am CER, einer Londoner Denkfabrik.

  • Tortuous EU move to arm Syria rebels highlights disunity
    Agence France Presse, 29 May 2013

    "There is a strong case for training and equipping forces loyal to the Syrian National Coalition," said Ian Bond of the CER. "But there must also be a credible threat from leading NATO and Middle Eastern powers that they will launch military strikes against Assad's air and ground forces."