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Who won the Dutch election, what happens now and what will Geert Wilders do next?
16 March 2017
The Express
Mr Wilders has got the second largest party and will play an important opposition role, according to Rem Korteweg, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform (CER).
“He is going to keep ramming home his agenda," Mr Korteweg said today in the wake of the provisional election result last night.
One image perfectly captures why populists didn't win the Dutch election
16 March 2017
Quartz
Rem Korteweg, a senior research fellow at the think-tank Centre for European Reform (CER), says the French and Dutch political systems aren’t really comparable. “If you want to talk about the populist tide, the tide is still there,” he says, but “there are definitely breakwaters you need to take into account,” including how “the Dutch political system works.”
TVN24 BiS: Brexit już niemal przesądzony. Co to oznacza dla Polaków
16 March 2017
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska talks to TVN24 BiS about what Brexit will mean for immigrants in Britain and for British people themselves.
BBC Radio 4: The World Tonight
15 March 2017
Charles Grant talks to The World Tonight about what could lie in store should Britain leave the EU without an exit deal (from 30.25).
CNN: Netherlands elections, after exit polls suggest Rutte ahead of Wilders
15 March 2017
Charles Grant speaks to Richard Quest on CNN to discuss the Dutch election result.
Hollanti äänestää ja Eurooppa jännittää – HS tapasi äänestäjiä pikkukaupungissa: ”Wilders ei saa nousta valtaan, hän on vaarallinen”
15 March 2017
Helsingin Sanomat
Mutta kyselyihin ei uskota Britannian brexit-äänestyksen ja Trumpin vaalivoiton jälkeisessä maailmassa. Hollantilaiset saattavat ujostella kertoa gallup-nikkareille tukevansa Wildersiä, kertoo Centre for European Reform -ajatushautomon tutkija Rem Korteweg.
Au Parlement néerlandais, chacun sa chapelle
14 March 2017
Liberation
«Une coalition sans Wilders sera un véritable Rubik’s Cube politique, écrit Rem Korteweg, chercheur au Centre for European Reform (CER). Ce système donne l’avantage aux partis qui défendent une cause unique, mais le résultat, c’est qu’il est presque impossible de dominer la scène politique.» Retour sur cette mosaïque de mouvements petits et jeunes, qui pourraient rafler des sièges au Parlement et donner la réplique à une future coalition hétéroclite.
Ban on head scarves at work is legal, EU court rules
14 March 2017
The New York Times
“It is a very bold step,” said Camino Mortera-Martinez, a research fellow at the Centre for European Reform in Brussels, describing the ruling as a landmark decision, if also a political and pragmatic one. “Recently we have seen the court being much more attentive to the political winds rather than being so legalistic, because of the recognition that the E.U. is at risk of collapse.”
The four traps Theresa May must avoid in her EU divorce letter
14 March 2017
The Guardian
To avoid disaster, Britain’s prime minister needs to get article 50 talks off to a good start – and that begins when she writes to Donald Tusk.
British PM May faces fresh Brexit hurdles despite winning parliament approval
14 March 2017
The Straits Times
"The thing historians will think quite strange is that, given that there's no majority in the country and no majority in parliament for a hard Brexit, how are we getting a hard Brexit?" said Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform. "The answer is there's no opposition and the Tory party, although a lot of it is quite soft, they are very scared of the eurosceptic newspaper groups."
Post-election chaos could propel Wilders into a no-lose situation
13 March 2017
The Times
Rem Korteweg, a senior research fellow at the CER, believes that Mr Wilders wins even if he loses. Put another way, a fractured, fragile pro-EU centrist establishment loses even if it wins, as France could be about to discover. “If the alternative to a Wilders-led government is a period of prolonged political instability, the odds of him returning with even more seats next time around would increase,” he said. “Keeping him out of government could then become very difficult indeed.”
Los europeístas y proinmigración también prosperan en las elecciones de Holanda
13 March 2017
El Espanol
¿Qué factores explican el ascenso de los partidos proeuropeos y el retroceso de Wilders? Para el investigador holandés Rem Korteweg, del think tank Centre for European Reform, el líder del euroescéptico PVV está sufriendo el contagio negativo del brexit y de Trump, con los que se había alineado. "La gente está nerviosa y preocupada. Ven en las noticias la incertidumbre en Reino Unido y el caos político en Estados Unidos y eso se traduce en dudas a la hora de votar por Wilders", explica Korteweg a EL ESPAÑOL.
EU expert: "Scotland can have independent migration rules without any border controls"
13 March 2017
Common Space
The director of an influential research group has said that Scotland can run its own migration system without jeopardising free movement with the rest of the UK. Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, said that rules could regulate workers rights through the tax system rather than through border checks. An expert on Russia, China, global governance, and UK-EU relations, Grant has been an important voice in the debate following the vote in England and Wales to exit the European Union in June 2016. Responding to claims that devolving migration would mean border problems fo
Turcja i Holandia w konflikcie. Zyskają na tym obie strony?
13 March 2017
Wiadomosci
Ale tylko w Holandii spór przybrał tak gwałtowną formę. Jak mówi w rozmowie z WP Rem Korteweg, holenderski analityk ośrodka Centre for European Reform (CER) w Londynie, stało się tak z jednego powodu: holenderskiej kampanii wyborczej.
Großbritannien-EU: Startschuss für den Brexit
13 March 2017
Die Presse
„Labour ist in völliger Auflösung und hat keine Strategie“, erklärte Simon Tilford vom Thinktank Centre for European Reform der „Presse“.
Elecciones en Holanda: Temor a que Holanda impulse a los extremistas
12 March 2017
EL Confidencial
Holanda considera que ahora en la UE “tiene menos voz que algunos de los nuevos miembros, y sin embargo es uno de los mayores contribuyentes per cápita al presupuesto comunitario”, en palabras de Rem Korteweg, experto del 'think tank' Centre for European Reform.
Radio 5 Live: How Europeans view Brexit
12 March 2017
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska speaks to Radio 5 Live about how Europeans view Brexit (from 08.00-25.00 mins).
Brexit is about to get real. Yet we are nowhere near ready for it
11 March 2017
The Guardian
Charles Grant, the director of the Centre for European Reform who predicted the leave vote, patiently explains how each one of these assets – which Brexiteers believe will make the Europeans putty in our hands – could create as much angst as advantage. It’s true, says Grant, that the City of London is valued for the financial services it provides to the EU. But it’s also true that Paris, Madrid, Milan, Frankfurt, Dublin and others are circling, ready to feast on the City’s carcass: they want some of that business for themselves.
Ossetia to be latest focus of Russia's uneasy relationship with EU
11 March 2017
The Irish Times
“The West’s policy towards eastern Europe so far has been one of relatively benign indecision,” Ian Bond* writes in a report for the Centre for European Reform think-tank. “When NATO leaders continue to proclaim that the alliance has an open door, or when the EU says ambiguously that its association agreement with Ukraine ‘does not constitute the final goal in EU-Ukraine co-operation’, they raise hopes in eastern Europe and fears in the Kremlin that are divorced from reality.”
Holland rykker mod både højre og venstre
11 March 2017
Berlinske
Rem Korteweg, der er seniorforsker ved den uafhængige, proeuropæiske tænketank Centre for European Reform (CER), peger også på, at det er lykkedes Rutte og Kristendemokraterne at stoppe Wilders’ fremgang de seneste måneder ved at rykke tættere på Wilders rent politisk, men med en »pænere« tone og mere troværdige valgprogrammer.