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Meerderheid Britten wil uit de EU, by Charles Grant

Knack, 21 November 2012

Aan de vooravond van alweer een belangrijke Europese topbijeenkomst is Charles Grant in Brussel. De directeur van het Britse Centre for European Reform heeft het bijzonder druk dezer dagen.
Middle class amid industrialized economies, by Simon Tilford

The Voice of Russia, 11 November 2012

Interview with Simon Tilford – chief economist at the London-based Centre for European Reform about middle class in industrialized or developed economies
I think over quite a long period of time the middle class in industrialized or developed economies has been I think squeezed.
Can Angela Merkel talk Cameron into being a more flexible ally?, by Katinka Barysch

The Guardian, 07 November 2012

The vexed EU budget is supposed to be the main topic of discussion when Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, meets David Cameron for supper on Wednesday in Downing Street.
Letter to Werner Hoyer, president, EIB, by Stephen Tindale

, 31 October 2012

The European Investment Bank is consulting on energy lending. It should cease lending to high-carbon coal.
London to Germany: Now save the euro, by Katinka Barysch

The Globalist, 31 October 2012

Plenty of policy makers and analysts in the United States and the United Kingdom think Germany is destroying the euro. The Germans think they are saving it. Clearly, they both can't be right.
A three-tier EU puts single market at risk, by Charles Grant

Financial Times, 25 October 2012

The euro crisis is changing the shape of the EU. As the countries in the eurozone seek to strengthen it by centralising economic policy making, three tiers are emerging within the union.
Evidence to the Select Committee on EU economic and financial affairs - Reform of the EU banking sector , by Philip Whyte

House of Lords, 23 October 2012

Unrevised transcript of evidence evidence given to the House of Lords European Union Sub-Committee on Economic and Financial Affairs, with Philip Whyte, senior research fellow, CER.
Power struggle: Is Germany's constitution the real bar to the euro rescue?, by Katinka Barysch

Prospect, 17 October 2012

12th September 2012, 10am in Germany. Bond traders in London and Frankfurt are staring at their screens. Once again, the fate of the eurozone seems to be hanging in the balance.

France-Allemagne, deux conceptions de la puissance

Le Monde

15 September 2013

Pour Charles Grant, du Centre for European Reform, à Londres, "l'Allemagne est le grand problème" de la politique européenne de sécurité, car soit elle reste soit neutre, soit elle défend ses propres intérêts.

Royal Mail sell-off leaves Postman Pat confused

Financial Times

12 September 2013

The missing bit of the narrative is the role played by allies of the UK. The latter-day Bluchers vital to the defeat of a Tobin tax were German industrialists, according to Simon Tilford of the Centre for European Reform.

German elections 2013: 'Do as we do' will remain the message to Europe

The Guardian

10 September 2013

"However the Germans vote on 22 September, Berlin's attitude to the EU is not going to change much," Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, wrote this week. Most analysts agree.

Has Berlusconi finally run out of political lives?

The New York Times

08 September 2013

"It could potentially be very significant," said Simon Tilford, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform in London. "Political instability in Italy is more of a concern than in Spain, Portugal or Greece."

Syria crisis reveals new paradigm

The New York Times

05 September 2013

The vote in Parliament "could turn out to be the signal for a strategic shift in favor of insularity," said Ian Bond, a foreign policy specialist at the CER. British lawmakers risked "sending the message that in the future the UK will be content to stay on the sidelines, regardless of what is happening in distant lands."

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