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“European leaders cannot act as though the last few weeks did not happen,” said Ian Bond, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank. “This was the most serious crisis in trans-Atlantic relations in a long time, but with Trump in the White House, it will not be the last.”

“The EU really dislikes the Swiss model quite intensely and has a very low opinion of it. So they don’t really want the British to have anything resembling the Swiss model,” Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, wrote recently.

Guttenberg’s post was reshared by Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, who added: “Europe should hold a competing football competition in Denmark at exactly the same time – and call it the Viking Freedom Supercup.”
In a subsequent emailed statement, Mr Tordoir said deployment of the ACI was unlikely, with a trade and tech war promising difficulty for both sides.

Europeans “will have to balance any steps they could take against the risks to their own defence capabilities if the US, for example, blocked the sale of weapons and munitions, either destined for Ukraine or for Nato countries themselves, or cut off the supply of US imagery and intelligence”, said Ian Bond, deputy director at the Centre for European Reform.

Metro asked Ian Bond, the deputy director of a London-based European Union think-tank, whether the UK has anything to worry about. Bond, of the Centre for European Reform, said: ‘It’s almost inconceivable that even a president as erratic as Trump would attack the UK.

Der erste „China-Schock“ zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts, als das Land der Welthandelsorganisation (WTO) beitrat, deindustrialisierte vor allem den Nordosten und mittleren Westen der USA. Der zweite „China-Schock“ jetzt trifft die EU – und ganz besonders Deutschland. „Für deutsche Hersteller, die der Logik des Kapitalismus unterliegen, Gewinne erwirtschaften und Erträge für Innovationen erzielen müssen, ist es nahezu unmöglich, mit den staatlich unterstützten, preislich konkurrenzlosen Exporten Chinas mitzuhalten“, sagt Sander Tordoir.
 
 

"A lot of drudge tasks can be pushed to AI to free up human labor," John Springford, a labor market expert at the Centre for European Reform, told DW. "But there's a good reason to believe that professional, knowledge work won't shrink."