Press quotes

  • Cameron: barriere sul welfare
    Il sole 24 Ore, 26 March 2013

    l'Europa e proprio su quel terreno - il mercato interno, di cui la libera circolazione è caposaldo - che a Londra sta più caro. "Mi aspetto molti ricorsi alla Corte di giustizia", spiega Hugo Brady del CER.

  • Die Angst vor der Kontopfändung greift um sich
    Manager Magazin, 26 March 2013

    "Auch andere Länder haben sehr schwache Banken, die letztlich rekapitalisiert werden müssen", sagt Simon Tilford,  CER. "Wer eine Zwangsabgabe auf Bankkonten einführt, riskiert, dass Bürger in Spanien oder Italien zwei Mal darüber nachdenken, ob sie ihr Geld den heimischen Banken überlassen."

  • Life, liberty and the pursuit of oil
    European Voice, 21 March 2013

    Katinka Barysch, deputy director of the CER, a think-tank based in London, points out that these are already important states in the transit of gas to the EU and are destined to become more important as new reserves in central Asia are developed.

  • Cyprus bailout incites turmoil as blame flies
    The New York Times, 18 March 2013

    Officials scrambled to explain what went wrong and how best to control the damage of what Philip Whyte, a senior research fellow at the CER, called a “completely irrational decision” to make bank depositors liable for part of the bailout.

  • Boris Johnson, pourquoi les Anglais en sont fous
    Le Monde, 15 March 2013

    "Boris n'était pas eurosceptique au début, se souvient Charles Grant, directeur du CER et qui fut correspondant à Bruxelles pour The Economist, en même temps que Boris. Il voulait devenir célèbre. Etre drôle, important, original à tout prix. Et quoi de mieux, pour cela, que s'attaquer à la pensée unique ?"

  • In Cyprus bailout, what's Russia got to do with it?
    Marketplace, 15 March 2013

    Simon Tilford of the Centre for European Reform says that might have something to do the biggest banking customers in Cyprus. "By bailing out Cyprus, they are bailing out Russian oligarchs and financiers who have used Cyprus as a financial center," says Tilford.

  • EU could save billions with cross-border renewables co-operation
    Reuters, 14 March 2013

    "Germany is a good example of how renewable policy has been driven as much, or possibly more, by industrial and employment policy concerns than it has by climate policy," said Stephen Tindale, associate fellow at the London-based Centre for European Reform.

  • Isolated Britain fails to avert EU bank bonus cap
    Politics UK, 06 March 2013

    "Britain has done a lot to isolate itself from the rest of the European Union," said Philip Whyte of the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank. "It isn't exercising very much influence in European debates, pretty much across the board."

  • Isolated Britain fails to avert EU bank bonus cap
    Reuters, 05 March 2013

    "Britain has done a lot to isolate itself from the rest of the European Union," said Philip Whyte of the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank. "It isn't exercising very much influence in European debates, pretty much across the board."

  • L'invasion de grillons
    Le Monde, 04 March 2013

    Pour Charles Grant, qui dirige à Londres, non sans mérite, le Centre for European Reform, "la démocratie est le talon d'Achille de l'euro".