Press
Want a ‘reset’ with the EU, PM? Here’s how you could pull it off…
02 October 2024
The Independent
With Keir Starmer in Brussels to restore post-Brexit relationships with European leaders, Ian Bond suggests ‘low-key’ is the name of the game when it comes to influencing foreign policy.
Europe's industrial nightmares are coming true
01 October 2024
Bloomberg
The scale of the problems facing Europe, though, with Germany giving up hope of achieving any growth this year, mean a lot has to go right. If energy costs are a competitive disadvantage for industry, that’s a separate challenge to needing more R&D spending. Trade policy will also have to play a part in leveling the playing field for domestic industries, with an imminent decision due on China EV tariffs. All these will have to work alongside foreign policy in the race to secure raw materials, as the Centre for European Reform notes.
EPRS policy roundtable: EU finances: Is Next Generation EU delivering?
01 October 2024
Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the CER spoke at the EPRS policy roundtable (from 44.00 mins).
NPO Radio 1: Hoe gaat het economisch met Duitsland?
30 September 2024
De economische motor van Europa lijkt uit te pruttelen. Duitsland staat keer op keer voor nieuwe problemen, na de coronacrisis en de energiecrisis lijkt de de Duitse autoindustrie nu op de rand van de afgrond te staan.
Duitse autosector ‘verkeert in slaaptoestand’, verdeeldheid over staatssteun
23 September 2024
BNR Nieuwsradio
Hulp bieden aan consumenten om de auto-industrie te helpen kan een oplossing zijn, denkt Sander Tordoir, senior econoom van het Centre for European Reform. 'Mijns inziens zijn maatregelen die de consument versterken wel nodig. Dit jaar zijn ongeveer 2,5 miljoen auto's in Duitsland. Dat is bijna een miljoen minder dan de piek voor de pandemie. Er is een zwakke vraag in Duitsland zelf, daar kan je natuurlijk iets aan doen.'
Deutschland darf nicht einfach dichtmachen
22 September 2024
Redaktions Netzwerk Deutschland (RND)
Sander Tordoir, Chefökonom der renommierten Denkfabrik Centre for European Reform, sieht in Draghis Schrift etwas Historisches: Sie verbinde Pläne von Jean Monnet (Verteidigungsintegration) und Jacques Delors (Binnenmarkt) mit Bidenomics (Clean Tech plus Resilienz).
Nigel Farage is right: Britain’s Remainers are back
20 September 2024
Politico
Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, said vocal pro-European backbenchers probably won’t be as influential as the ERG — despite already having a “rather fraught relationship with the Labour leadership.”
European Parliament throws weight behind Draghi report
19 September 2024
PA Europe
Reacting to the report, the Centre for European Reform questioned whether the bloc’s leaders will be willing to implement its findings.It wrote: “Draghi’s report represents a much-needed reality check for the EU’s ambitions. European leaders must address the lack of support for disruptive innovation in Europe and the difficulty entrepreneurs face in commercialising their ideas and scaling up.
Draghi report
19 September 2024
Financial Times
Among the many comments on the Draghi report, the ones by Martin Wolf and the Centre for European Reform are well worth your time.
From dirty man to flirty man: What might Labour’s ‘closer EU alignment’ on chemicals look like?
18 September 2024
Ends Report
“The question is not whether the UK should follow EU rules,” noted research fellow Aslak Berg in an insight paper for the Centre for European Reform in July, “but rather the extent to which it should do so and whether it makes sense to formally commit to doing so in return for increased market access”. The European Economic Area (EEA), Ukraine and Switzerland all have different models to show how this can be done, Berg explained.
Future is blue podcast: What Mario Draghi's report means for Europe
18 September 2024
Carlos Carnicero Urabayen is joined by Sander Tordoir and Raymond Torres to discuss the key findings and implications of Mario Draghi’s recent report on Europe's competitiveness.
Europe grapples with its decline
18 September 2024
The Washington Post
“Europe’s innovative capacity is declining, compared with other major advanced economies, as is its business dynamism,” laid out a policy brief from the Centre for European Reform. “Intensifying state-led Chinese competition, geopolitical tensions and continued reliance on imported energy mean that policy procrastination could lead to permanent stagnation, or worse.”
Warum der Draghi- Bericht eine Riesenchance für Deutschland ist
17 September 2024
Handelsblatt
Die Bundesrepublik steht im Zentrum der Krise. Draghis Analyse ist vor allem für uns ein Angebot, die Probleme im EU-Konzert zu lösen. Von Lucas Guttenberg, Nils Redeker und Sander Tordoir.
Brexit is 'stifling' exports and imports, report finds
17 September 2024
Financial Times
John Springford, a trade economist at the Centre for European Reform think-tank, said that while Du’s results differed from some other academic studies, the findings were in keeping with overall trade data. “Jun Du and her colleagues’ paper fits with what we know in the aggregate data about UK goods trade: exports and imports to all destinations, in both the EU and the rest of the world, have grown more slowly than peer economies,” he said.
What The Hague is cooking on trade
16 September 2024
Politico
The Netherlands are “nicely in the middle of the debate between more China hawkish von der Leyen on the one hand, and more China dovish Germany on the other hand. And they still have a tradition of being very pro-trade,” said Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform (CER).
Will Mario Draghi’s masterplan get the momentum it needs?
14 September 2024
Financial Times
“The diagnosis is hard to argue with,” wrote Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, in an excellent thread on X. Tordoir said the plan “channels aspects of the thinking of Jean Monnet (EU defence integration), Jacques Delors (EU single market) and Bidenomics (cleantech/economic security), but above all, Draghi’s own vision.”
CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Evaluating Mario Draghi's report on competitiveness
13 September 2024
Elisabetta Cornago, Luigi Scazzieri, Sander Tordoir and Zach Meyers discuss Mario Draghi's report.
3 questions on the Draghi report on European competitiveness to Sander Tordoir
12 September 2024
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
We asked Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, for his first reactions to the Draghi report.
Draghi-Bericht: Welche Schritte dieKommission schnell einleiten könnte
11 September 2024
Table Media
„Der Bericht bietet ein starkes intellektuelles Fundament für eineeuropäische Industriestrategie. Das hatten wir so noch nicht“, sagt Sander Tordoir, Chefökonom beim Think-Tank Centre for European Reform (CER).
Massiv ldnesisk statsstotte kan koste mio. af job
11 September 2024
Jyllands-Posten
Sander Tordoir, der er chefokonom i taenke-tanken Centre for European Reform, kalder det, Niebuhr Gears er ramt af, for et »Kinachok«.Og det er ikke kun relevant for det Ikastbaserede selskab. Tvaertimod karakteriserer Sander Tordoir det som den storste udfordring, som europaeisk erhvervsliv star med lige nu. Og han forudser, at det kommer til at definere de naeste 5 -10 ar for Europa. »Den massive overproduktion og grusomme priskonkurrence i Kina bliver eksporteret til alle os andre,« siger han og tilfojer: »Det her er af en helt anden slorrelsesorden end noget, vi har set tidligere.«