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Zselyke Csaky, ricercatore senior presso il Centro per le riforme europee, ritiene che "l'allargamento debba provenire da entrambe le parti". Molti vedono l'allargamento come una decisione puramente politica, afferma, ma "c'è molto lavoro tecnico da fare".

“Europe works poorly in slow-burn crises,” said Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform (CER), an independent think tank.“The co-ordination between member-states is always hard, and it works best under acute pressure when minds are focused. In slow-burn crises, the narcissism of small differences wins out,” he said.

De foute benadering, zeggen economen van denktank Centre for European Reform: het probleem is niet dat verbod over tien jaar, maar het feit dat er nú te weinig vraag naar Europese (inclusief Duitse) auto’s, terwijl de Chinese concurrentie moordend en oneerlijk is. En dus kan de EU beter de vraag naar Europese elektrische auto’s aanjagen met Buy European-regels.

John Springford at the Centre for European Reform think tank has nobly attempted to answer this [whether Britain’s economy could have grown by more] by making a “doppelganger” UK, made up of countries that grew at a similar rate to Britain between 2009 and 2016. This model version of Britain — 31 per cent America, plus some Germany, New Zealand, Australia and others — was 5 per cent richer than actual Britain by 2022.

In the wake of last August’s Paris summit the Centre for European Reform (CER) released a policy brief entitled: Can Europe Save Ukraine – and itself- from Putin and Trump?In the document Ian Bond, deputy director of the CER, said that Europeans need to face up to four key facts.The first is that Trump favours Putin over Zelenskyy and that the US is now doing relatively little to help Ukraine.The second is that the Russians will not agree to Ukraine having any effective protection against future attacks. The security guarantee for Ukraine allegedly accepted by Putin in his meeting with Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff says Bond is a mirage, and the US is reluctant to provide an insurance policy for European forces in Ukraine.Thirdly, Putin remains determined to win, not compromise and his peace terms would reduce Ukraine to vassal status.

In a report published ahead of the summit by various think-tanks, including the Centre for European Reform, Redeker and colleagues Sander Tordoir and Lucas Guttenberg point to a different set of problems EU leaders should be trying to solve."Chinese car exports are surging, European producers are being squeezed out of global markets, US tariffs are rising, and domestic demand remains 20 per cent below pre-pandemic levels," they write.

The European Commission shouldn’t give in to temptation and calls to loosen competition policy to boost competitiveness, Zach Meyers, associate fellow at the Centre for European Reform, told Aude. “Competition policy has generally been kind of a force for good and a force for innovation in Europe,” he said.Still, there are areas where improvements are needed, certainly when looking at it from a single market perspective, he said. Meyers co-authored a policy paper last week laying down a reform agenda for the internal market, which includes some ideas on the competition side. While Europe likes to boast that there are more competitors on the markets than in the US, these competitors operate in smaller national markets. The more concentrated US markets are more dynamic, with companies that are either growing or shrinking. Meanwhile, Europe lacks this dynamism with “kind of pretty stagnant [companies] in terms of size,” Meyers said.