Press quotes

  • Cameron et l'Europe, l'impossible équation
    Les Echos, 22 October 2012

    Cependant, il est difficile d'imaginer que les partenaires de la Grande-Bretagne lui laissent la main libre sur ces sujets. Comme l'explique Hugo Brady, du CER, s'il veut continuer à participer à ce marché unique qui est aujourd'hui la raison d'être de son adhésion à l'Europe...

  • In the picture: The EU's October summit
    Financial Times, 18 October 2012

    Taking a step back, Philip Whyte at the Centre for European Reform argues that the initial June report from the gang of four "marked an important departure, because its focus shifted to correcting the eurozone's architectural flaws rather than the behaviour of its members."

  • Brexit: Europe loses patience with London
    Financial Times, 18 October 2012

    Beyond the realm of politics, investors in Britain have been slow to wake up to the implications of what the Centre for European Reform has dubbed "Brexit".

  • EU leaders clash on fiscal powers as Greeks protest
    USA Today, 18 October 2012

    "It would involve countries handing over to an unelected appointed figures the right to veto their budgets, so in terms of the implications for democratic accountability it's certainly very radical," said Simon Tilford, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform in London.

  • Britain takes a step back from Europe
    International Herald Tribune, 15 October 2012

    "This is the opening shot in a long and controversial negotiation over which European police and judicial co-operation Britain wants to stay in, and which it is allowed to stay in," said Hugo Brady, of the CER.

  • Viewpoints: Experts comment on EU's Nobel award
    BBC News, 12 October 2012

    Charles Grant: The EU merits the peace prize. Its role in history is unique and positive, and much more important than the inability of the current bunch of leaders to resolve the eurozone's travails. One only has to travel to Asia to understand the EU's value.

  • Nobel Peace Prize: And the winner is Europe!
    Marketplace, 12 October 2012

    Simon Tilford, of the Centre for European Reform, says that's exactly why they're giving the EU the Nobel Prize for Peace. "The region is in crisis," he says, "it's very difficult to see a way out of it because of political differences between the member-states."

  • Nobel peace prize leads EU to question its raison d'être
    The Guardian, 12 October 2012

    Charles Grant director of the CER, initially laughed off the award but then decided it was a significant moment."My first reaction was to think it was a joke," he said. "But the more I thought about it the more I realised that these Nobel guys were seeing the broad sweep of history that some of us."

  • European Union awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
    Channel 4 News, 12 October 2012

    Philip Whyte of the CER, said the timing of the award could be seen as "ironic". Many EU countries have committed to austerity measures and stringent loan agreements, which they have very little power to resist and the terms of the eurozone bailout agreements could be seen as "undermining democracy in southern Europe", he said.

  • EADS-BAE failure shows road to united EU ends in Berlin
    Bloomberg, 11 October 2012

    "The German government, compared to the French and the British governments, is always unco-ordinated," said Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform.