Opinion pieces

  • Single currency doomed in current form, by Simon Tilford
    Channel 4 News, 05 December 2011

    As Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel discuss the eurozone debt crisis in Paris, economist  Simon Tilford tells Channel 4 News the single currency cannot survive in its present form.

  • Believe it or not, Angela Merkel has a plan to tackle the euro crisis, by Katinka Barysch
    The Guardian, 05 December 2011

    While Merkel's vision for a fiscal union may not be the answer to all the eurozone's problems it could be a vital part of any solution.

  • Is Austerity George saving the UK economy?, by Simon Tilford
    The Times, 30 November 2011

    Britain’s unlikely status as a safe haven is more to do with Europe’s problems than our cuts.

    George Osborne likes to point at Britain’s record low borrowing costs — the Government can issue ten-year debt at just over 2 per cent — as proof of confidence in his stewardship of the economy.

  • Los británicos defienden a España e Irlanda: alemanes son también culpables de la crisis, by Philip Whyte, Simon Tilford
    Invertia, 23 November 2011

    Los expertos del Centre for European Reform (CER), una agrupación británica pro europea, Simon Tilford y Philip Whyte, aseguran en el informe “¿Por qué normas más estrictas ponen en peligro a la UE?” que no toda la culpa de la actual crisis es de los países periféricos, los mal llamados PIIGS (Portugal, Italia, Irlanda, Grecia y España).

  • Neo-Calvinists and the euro crisis, by Paul Krugman
    The New York Times, 22 November 2011

    Ambrose Evans-Pritchard sends us to a very good essay(pdf) by the Centre for European Reform warning of the consequences of relying on the “North European

  • Self-serving myths of Europe's neo-Calvinists, by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
    The Daily Telegraph, 21 November 2011

    If you have half an hour, read this paper (pdf) by Philip Whyte and Simon Tilford for the Centre for European Reform. It is a forensic look into the deeper causes of Europe's crisis and why the reactionary policies being imposed on two thirds of the eurozone by Germany's Wolfgang Schauble and the northern neo-Calvinists – with input from 1930s liquidationists at the ECB – will lead to certain disaster. 

  • Debate: Should we feel sorry for Greece?, by Simon Tilford
    BBC News, 07 November 2011

    Greece is at the eye of the storm gathering over the world economy, and threatening to tear the eurozone apart. But should the rest of us be sorry for Greece, or angry? Here, two experts present opposing arguments for and against sympathy.

  • Interview: Les Britanniques ont le sentiment que l’Union européenne essaie de faire du tort à la City, by Charles Grant
    Le Figaro, 26 October 2011

    Le Figaro - David Cameron a essuyé sa plus grande rebellion dans son propre camp au Parlement. Peut-on parler d’un vent d’euroscepticisme chez les politiques?