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John Springford of the CER warns that the picture looks even gloomier when you measure UK performance against countries most like us — so excluding the US and Germany — and including Australia, Canada and the Netherlands.  “Trade intensity in countries whose trends most closely matched the UK’s before 2019 is about 10 per cent higher than before the pandemic. For an open economy dependent on trade for cheaper products, innovation and productivity growth, this is awful performance,” he says.

India, as the world’s fifth-largest economy and most populous nation, has ambitious plans to boost manufacturing and exports while engaging globally through multilateral partnerships, says Anunita Chandrasekar of the Centre for European Reform (CER).

Die EU, der European Stability Mechanism (ESM) und die Europäische Investitionsbank sind mit einem „Triple A“-Rating bewertet. Der Chefökonom der Denkfabrik Centre for European Reform (CER), Sander Tordoir, empfiehlt das Auflegen einer Anleihe im Volumen von 500 Milliarden Euro für die Aufrüstung.

“I think this is going to go down pretty badly in Europe,” says Ian Bond, a former British diplomat who is deputy director of the London-based Centre for European Reform. “Trump basically appears to be acting as though the Americans have the right to seize Ukraine’s national assets, in return for the assistance that they have given so far.

US allies sense a change in tone from the president since his inauguration last month, said Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, a London-based research group.“Though Trump has said a lot of things to worry a lot of people on tariffs, on trade, on Gaza and so on, he hasn't yet said anything particularly crazy from a European point of view about Ukraine or NATO. He hasn't repeated his threat to pull out of NATO. He said the Europeans should spend more [on defense] but most of us agree with him on that. He hasn't said he's going to cut off all aid for Ukraine,” Grant told VOA.

“The next few years could be very dangerous for Europe’s stability and security, and will put the transatlantic relationship - which has benefited US as well as European interests for the last 80 years - under extreme, perhaps terminal strain,” said Ian Bond, deputy director from the London-based Center for European Reform.

“Some common debt may be unavoidable but it is controversial, even if it is only used for productivity-increasing investments in EU public goods such as breakthrough innovations, defence and cross-border energy infrastructure,” analysts at the Centre for European Reform wrote in a recent report.