Opinion pieces

  • Follia,in cinque anni via dell'Ue, by Simon Tilford
    Il Mattino, 12 December 2011

    Londra. "Foolish". Assurda, dissennata, imprudente. La decisione presa da David Cameron preoccupa Simon Tilford, capo economista della prestigiosa think tank britannica Centre for european reform. La mossa del premier è incomprensibile, sostiene Tilford, e danneggerà la Gran Bretagna ma, in parte, anche la Ue.

  • Immediate summit reaction, by Simon Tilford
    CER, 09 December 2011

    This week’s summit will do little to solve the fundamentals of this crisis. What has been agreed is definitely not a fiscal union, there is no agreement to close any of the institutional gaps in the eurozone, such as the lack of any real fiscal union or pan-eurozone backstop to the banking sector. Without these two things the crisis will continue to worsen.

  • Ma l’Europa di Merkozy è già vecchia, by Charles Grant
    Europaquotidiano, 08 December 2011

    «In questo momento mi pare si possa adattare ai leader europei quello che Churchill usava dire a proposito degli americani: si può sempre essere sicuri che facciano la cosa giusta, una volta che abbiano esaurito tutte le altre possibilità».

  • 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