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Last December Charles Grant, who runs the Centre for European Reform, gave the absence a name: the “paradox of French power”. With Britain gone, he argued, the Commission under Ursula von der Leyen has slid towards the industrial interventionism that Paris always favoured. 

Anton Spisak, économiste au Centre for European Reform, souligne que le Brexit « a eu un impact considérable sur les investissements ». Selon lui, « cela a eu un impact sur le climat général des affaires et a suscité beaucoup d'incertitude. Les entreprises, elles aiment la certitude, elles aiment les règles stables, elles aiment la prévisibilité » mais le Brexit a été tout le contraire de cela. 

Armida van Rij from the Centre for European Reform points to re-invigorated efforts by a long list of European countries clamouring to join the EU's ranks - none more insistently than Ukraine.

Defining “rejoin” would be tortuous. Research by John Springford and Anton Spisak at the Centre for European Reform finds that returning to just the customs union would only undo a fraction of the economic damage caused by exiting. But returning to the single market would involve difficult political trade-offs, such as accepting free movement, paying money to the bloc and rule-taking.

Sander Tordoir, chief economist of the Centre for European Reform, a pro-EU British think-tank, said “You don’t want to get married to someone who you don’t know is committed to the relationship.”

Research seen by The Guardian has found goods exports to the bloc are 16 per cent lower than they would have been, while services sector exports are 7 per cent lower.  John Springford and Anton Spisak, of the Centre for European Reform, said the data shows the “overwhelming majority” has been caused by leaving the single market.

Analysis by the Centre for European Reform (CER) showed the UK’s travel sector saw the biggest drop in services exports, which slumped by 39%, while the UK’s agricultural and food goods exports plunged by 29%. The think-tank warned that Sir Keir’s EU reset would do little to reverse this economic damage. The Prime Minister’s reset is focused on a series of targeted agreements that should ease frictions in sectors such as agriculture and food but will leave the vast majority of the Brexit trade losses unaddressed, CER said.

Bijušais Lielbritānijas vēstnieks Latvijā, domnīcas "Eiropas Reformu centrs" vadītāja vietnieks Īans Bonds atzīst, ka zaudējums valstij ir tas, ka Londona nebija pie sarunu galda svarīgu sarunu vai lēmumu pieņemšanas laikā.