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Elisabetta Cornago

The Jolt: Climate and energy overshadowed in State of the EU address

11 September 2025
Elisabetta Cornago from the Centre for European Reform joins The Jolt to discuss what it revealed about upcoming climate and energy policy, as well as the global trends that overshadow these.
“On one hand, I think she's trying to make the case for a European industrial grand plan that covers both clean tech...

Europe drags its heels on Draghi plan as global rivals surge

10 September 2025
Financial Times
For Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, simplification is a sideshow rather than the main medication. “You can have a bonfire of regulations and if you have none of the other policies Draghi recommended . . . nothing is going to happen.”

Warum die Union das Verbrenner-Aus kippen will

10 September 2025
Der Spiegel
Sander Tordoir, Chefökonom beim Thinktank Centre for European Reform, hält die Debatte über das Verbrennerverbot für irreführend und schlägt eine andere Maßnahme vor, um auf die strukturelle Krise der Industrie zu reagieren. »Deutschland, Europas am stärksten autozentrierte Wirtschaft, sollte seine Kaufprämien für E-Autos wieder einführen«, sagt Tordoir. Deren Abschaffung nennt er »Selbstgeißelung«.

Mistral emerges as last, best hope for European AI contender

09 September 2025
Bloomberg
Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, echoed this thought, describing the move as “a bet on the future of a sovereign tech ecosystem.”

How to modernise Europe’s power grids to deal with renewables and increased demand?

08 September 2025
The Economist Cafe Europa
How to modernise Europe’s power grids to deal with renewables and increased demand? The technical issues are shockingly complicated and the politics are polarised. This paper from John Springford, of the Centre for European Reform, explains that more European trade in electricity could amp up production and dial down prices. But trading electricity across borders encounters resistance from some national governments: while it lowers prices overall for Europeans, it may raise prices locally. Mr Springford calls for conducting the gains from trade back to consumers so they can see how they benefit. 
Sander Tordoir

Bloomberg - The Pulse: Draghi report a year on

05 September 2025
Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the CER spoke to The Pulse one year on from the Draghi report (from 16:12 mins).

Zorgen over staatsschulden leiden tot nerveuze week op financiële markten

04 September 2025
Die Volkskrant
Zo is daar de rol van de Nederlandse pensioenfondsen.‘Die zijn wereldwijd een zeer belangrijke koper van zulke langlopende obligaties’, zegt Sander Tordoir, hoofdeconoom van het Centre for European Reform in Berlijn. ‘Maar die hebben vanwege aankomende hervormingen van het Nederlandse pensioenstelsel besloten minder van zulke lange obligaties te kopen, dus lopen die rentes nu ook op.’
Ian Bond

Sky News: World leaders attend Paris summit to discuss Ukraine

04 September 2025
A former UK ambassador has called into question the willingness of Ukraine's allies to actually take action to help Kyiv.Ian Bond, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform and former British ambassador to Latvia, speaking to presenter Gareth Barlow, said the coalition of the willing "has been very willing to talk, it's not been so willing to act".

This is Marine Le Pen’s plan to stop France bankrupting itself

03 September 2025
The Telegraph
“I’d be rather sceptical that [the] National Rally would be serious about addressing France’s fiscal problems, because fiscal consolidation is painful politically and economically,” says Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform (CER).
“In most of Europe, the only parties with a history of showing they’re capable of doing that are from somewhere in the political centre.”
Ian Bond

Newstalk FM: Suspected Russian GPS jamming targets President von der Leyen's plane

02 September 2025
The European Commission has confirmed that President Ursula von der Leyen's plane was disrupted due to suspected Russian GPS jamming while attempting to land in Bulgaria on Sunday. We get reaction to this from Ian Bond, former British diplomat in Moscow, and now the deputy director of the Centre for European Reform.

Home secretary suspends refugee family reunion applications until new, tighter rules are put in place – as it happened

01 September 2025
The Guardian
This is from John Springford of the Centre for European Reform. "It’s fascinating watching the same cycle of f%¥£ing around and finding out happening. Some anti-ECHR lawyers in Britain might say this [that leaving the ECHR won’t affect the Good Friday agreement], but Irish and EU politicians think differently, and politics will determine their reaction, not law alone."

Sous les coups de boutoir de Donald Trump et de Xi Jinping, la grande rupture économique allemande

30 August 2025
Le Monde
Sander Tordoir, chef économiste au Centre for European Reform, un institut de recherche berlinois, confirme cette inflexion du capitalisme allemand. « Il existe une tendance mondiale où on observe que la relation entre l’Etat et les grandes entreprises évolue. Aux Etats-Unis, il y a par exemple un rapprochement entre la Silicon Valley et la Pentagon Valley, entre la scène technologique et celle de la défense, avec des entreprises comme Palantir ou Anduril. En Chine, c’est le standard depuis longtemps.

En Allemagne, le « second choc chinois » provoque une hécatombe d’emplois

29 August 2025
Le Monde
Pour Sander Tordoir, chef économiste au Centre for European Reform, qui avait décrit dès le mois de septembre 2024 la menace du « second choc chinois » pour l’économie allemande et européenne, estime qu’il est « deux fois plus gros que le premier », et aussi plus destructeur pour l’Europe, car elle est bien plus dépendante de l’industrie que ne l’étaient les Etats-Unis dans les années 2000.

Del rearmament a la mili obligatòria: Europa es blinda davant l'amenaça de Rússia

28 August 2025
Catalunya Press
Analistes com Ian Bond, del Centre for European Reform, adverteixen: “El que veiem que Rússia està preparant no és la pau”. Tot això tenint en compte el que se sap i no el que s'intueix que pot fer, en secret, Rúsia.
CER Podcast: Latest developments in Russia's war on Ukraine

CER Podcast: Latest developments in Russia's war on Ukraine

Ian Bond, Hanna Shelest
27 August 2025
Ian Bond and Hanna Shelest discuss the latest developments in Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.

Europe is losing

22 August 2025
The Wall Street Journal
One reason change is difficult is that most Europeans will continue to enjoy a comfortable lifestyle for decades to come. “In global terms, relative decline is inevitable, but it may still be a very nice place, right?” says Sander Tordoir, an economist at the Centre for European Reform.

Zölle vs starker Euro + Verantwortung für Waldbrände

21 August 2025
Table Briefings
Gemäß Sander Tordoir, Chefökonom beim Centre forEuropean Reform, sind dies die positiveren Wirtschaftsaussichten für Europa aufgrundder angekündigten Infrastrukturinvestitionen Deutschlands, die Unsicherheit in denUSA, sowie die chinesische Währungsmanipulation. Die ersten beiden Gründe sind er-freuliche Entwicklungen für die EU-Wirtschaft, da sie Kapitalkosten senken und somitInvestitionen vereinfachen sollten. Gefährlich ist aber die Währungsmanipulation Chi-nas. Tordoir fürchtet einen „China-Schock im Hyperdrive“.

‘A million more dead’: The numbers that show Russia is years from victory

19 August 2025
The Telegraph
None of these factors mean Russia is facing imminent collapse, says Ian Bond, deputy director for the Centre for European Reform in London.There is no sign that the casualty rate or the economic strains of the war have created any kind of serious domestic political challenge to Putin so far.“But Russia is strong until it’s not. It looks mighty, and then mental fatigue sets in, and things fall apart quite quickly,” he says.

Security guarantees? Face time With Putin? Zelenskyy gets warmer Trump reception but unclear results

19 August 2025
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
“I viewed this from the beginning as a damage-limitation exercise, and I think to some extent it achieved that,” said Ian Bond, a former British diplomat who is now deputy director of the Centre for European Reform in London. “Clearly, it was a lot better than the meeting in February.”

France 24: Alaska Summit: 'There is absolutely no sign that Putin wants to to make any compromises'

16 August 2025
Before the summit ended, FRANCE 24's Jean-Emile Jammine spoke to Ian Bond, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform in London and former British Ambassador to Latvia.

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