Press quotes

  • David Cameron and Angela Merkel talk about Europe
    BBC Newsnight, 12 April 2013

    Katinka Barysch, deputy director of the CER, on BBC Newsnight discussing Cameron's trip to Germany to discuss EU reform.

  • It's not a question of if, but only when Merkel grasps the nettle of eurozone debt mutualisation
    The Telegraph, 09 April 2013

    In his latest blog, Charles Grant of the CER, raises the question of whether Angela Merkel's stance on the European crisis might change after she is safely re-elected in September, and is therefore perhaps not as much beholden to the prejudices of her electorate as she is now.

  • France 'to buy US drones'
    France 24, 08 April 2013

    The larger and more sophisticated UAVs are made in the US, Clara O'Donnell, a defence expert at the Centre for European Reform told FRANCE 24. Europe is also keen to develop longer-range drones designed for air-to-air combat, which could ultimately replace fighter jets.

  • Germany and France 'will block David Cameron's plan for a new EU treaty'
    The Guardian, 06 April 2013

    Charles Grant, the director of the politically independent Centre for European Reform, who has held talks with senior officials in Berlin and Paris in recent weeks, said there was "no chance" of a new EU treaty in time for Cameron to hold a referendum in 2017, even if he was still in No 10.

  • Britannia liukuu jo kohti EU:n ulkokehää
    Helsingin Sanomat, 06 April 2013

    European Centre for European Reform -ajatuspajan johtaja Charles Grant löytää ilmapiirin muuttumiseen useita syitä. Eurokriisi alkaa olla – Kyproksen välinäytöksestä huolimatta – hallinnassa, joten jäsenmailla ei ole pakottavaa tarvetta ryhtyä jopa vuosikausia kestävään sopimusremonttiin.

  • Tusk faworytem na nowego szefa KE
    Wirtualna Polska, 04 April 2013

    Premier Polski Donald Tusk jest "zdecydowanym faworytem" na nowego szefa Komisji Europejskiej, a jego minister spraw zagranicznych Radosław Sikorski - na nowego szefa unijnej dyplomacji - pisze Hugo Brady, ekspert think tanku Centre for European Reform.

  • Tusk "zdecydowanym faworytem" do zostania szefem KE
    Wprost, 04 April 2013

    Hugo Brady, analityk think-tanku Centre for European Reform w swojej analizie ocenił, że Donald Tusk jest "wyraźnym faworytem" do objęcia stanowiska szefa Komisji Europejskiej po Jose Manuel Barroso.

  • Polish PM 'clear favourite' for next commission chief
    EU Observer, 04 April 2013

    Polish PM Tusk and foreign minister Sikorski are "clear favourites" to become the next European Commission head or EU foreign affairs chief, according to a note by Hugh Brady, an analyst at the London-based think tank the CER.

  • EU's neighbourhood policy becoming more political, say experts
    EurActiv, 02 April 2013

    "What you are seeing is the EEAS playing a greater role in the ENP. This is bringing foreign policy priorities to the foreground," Rem Korteweg, of the CER told EurActiv.

  • Germany sees itself as Europe's grown-up, children sullen
    Reuters, 01 April 2013

    "German policy-makers have taken to their new found status with something close to gusto," Simon Tilford said in the latest edition of the CER's bulletin."They routinely tell other eurozone countries how to run their economies, citing Germany as a model for the currency union as a whole."