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Tok FM: Francja, Niemcy, Włochy i Hiszpania za UE różnych prędkości
07 March 2017
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska speaks to TOK FM about the mini- summit in Versailles and a multi-speed EU.
Wybory przewodniczącego Rady Europejskiej. Kto jeśli nie Tusk?
07 March 2017
Wiadomosci
Na jego korzyść mają działać dobre relacje z prezydentem USA Donaldem Trumpem, a także terminarz: w maju, kiedy kończy się kadencja Tuska, partia Kenny'ego, centroprawicowa Fine Gael, ma wybrać nowego lidera. - Kenny pojawił się na giełdzie nazwisk w 2014 roku. Nie dziwi mnie więc, ze jego nazwisko ponownie jest brane pod uwagę przez niektórych komentatorów - mówi WP Agata Gostyńska, ekspert Centre for European Reform w Londynie.
Dutch complaints
06 March 2017
Financial Times
Wilders wins? Rem Korteweg of the Centre for European Reform argues that the most likely winner from this election is Wilders. If the vote goes as expected, he will be kept out of government, but he will succeed in becoming the voice of opposition politics in the Netherlands.
The 'Jessiah': The Dutch progressive trying to turn back the populist tide
06 March 2017
The Guardian
The governing liberal party led by Mark Rutte is standing at about 16% in the current poll of polls, as is Wilders’ party. Three others parties, including the Greens, hover around 11%. “A leftwing coalition – led by GroenLinks (Green Left) – could possibly be formed and include the Eurosceptic and hard-left Socialist party (SP) or even the fringe PvdD, an animal rights party, the respected Centre for European Reform has reported.
Far-right parties are exploiting a design flaw in coalition governments across Europe
06 March 2017
Quartz
Polls suggest that 13 of those parties may get into parliament; eight are expected to win ten seats or more - a historic high, according to the think tank Centre for European Reform (CER). "Wilders benefits from today’s fragmented political landscape because it means that even if he only gets 1/6th of the vote, he could still end up as the largest party or the largest party in opposition," says Rem Korteweg, a senior research fellow at CER.
Tok FM: Będzie drugie referendum ws. niepodległości Szkocji?
03 March 2017
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska speaks to TOK FM about the Scottish referendum on independence.
How the Dutch fell out of love with the EU
02 March 2017
Carnegie Europe
After decades of embracing a firmly pro-EU stance, the Dutch appear increasingly out of sorts and disappointed with the European Union.
A quantum solace - defence in Brexit negotiations
01 March 2017
Berlin Policy Journal
The UK's exit negotiations with the EU have not yet officially begun, but it is already becoming clear that no policy area will remain unaffected - not even security and defence policy cooperation.
EU, pressured from inside and out, considers a reboot
01 March 2017
The New York Times
"The risk, some say, is that you can undermine the coherence and unity of the union, but that’s too bad, because it can’t hold together if it’s not flexible," said Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, a research institution in London. "For instance, why pretend all countries will join the euro? It won’t happen."
Britische Trümpfe: London wird die Sicherheitspolitik in den Brexit-Verhandlungen nutzen wollen
01 March 2017
German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Premierministerin Theresa May hat signalisiert, bei den Austrittsverhandlungen mit der EU auch Großbritanniens militär- und sicherheitspolitisches Gewicht in die Waagschale werden zu wollen – ein riskantes Spiel für die EU, aber auch für die Briten.
World leaders welcome Trump's measured tone, await details of 'America first' policies
01 March 2017
Voice of America
The warmer tone has been welcomed, says Ian Bond of the London-based Center for European Reform, who spoke to VOA via Skype. "He didn’t repeat the suggestion that it was obsolete and he did stress the importance of NATO. But underneath that he’s still talking in terms of NATO countries paying their bills, as though America is a kind of bodyguard service," Bond said.
CER podcast: Daniel Keohane on the future of European Defence after Brexit and Trump
28 February 2017
Discussion on how Brexit will affect EU defence co-operation and how the UK can use its special relationship with the US to get a better deal from Europeans.
David Davis tells cabinet to prepare for 'unlikely' possibility of UK not getting Brexit deal – as it happened
28 February 2017
The Guardian
The government has been criticised for asserting that it will be able to strike a free trade deal with the EU within two years. “Britain’s partners think that is bonkers,” Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, said in an insightful report published recently about the problems the UK will face getting a Brexit deal. Grant went on: "The fact that [Theresa] May proclaimed that everything could be done in two years makes Britain’s partners worry that 10 Downing Street is not fully in touch with reality."
Theresa May reshapes administration in Home Office mould
25 February 2017
Financial Times
Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform think-tank, said the prime minister might benefit from consulting a wider circle of people “including former permanent representatives to the EU” before finalising her Brexit strategy. “At the moment it seems to be a fairly small group of people involved in decision making, many of them with a Home Office background,” he said.
The €60bn bill that threatens the Brexit talks
25 February 2017
The Irish Times
It is such a potentially contentious issue that Alex Barker, Brussels bureau chief of the Financial Times, warned in a recent paper for the Centre for European Reform that this political collision “could bring the Brexit talks to a sudden and premature end”.
EU unsure how to sanction Poland over reform issue
24 February 2017
Voice of America
Agata Gostynska-Jakubowska of the Centre for European Reform says the European Commission has little room to maneuver and might lose this battle with Poland. “If the commission does not respond, it would face criticism from liberals in the European Parliament and it looks weak in the eyes of external actors; but, by interfering in this political conflict, the risks of antagonizing the Polish public is the last thing the commission would like to have because of growing euroscepticism.”
Letting the Lords have their say
23 February 2017
The Economist
The big risk is that the eventual result will be good neither for Britain nor for the EU. In a new paper for the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank, Charles Grant notes that this is because “both the UK and the 27 are placing politics and principles ahead of economically optimal outcomes.” Sadly, it was ever thus.
Brexit: What does leaving the EU mean for expats?
23 February 2017
The Telegraph
There have also been fears that member states angered by Brexit could try to put pressure on British expats in revenge. For example, Spain could ask British retirees to pay for their own healthcare, according to the Centre for European Reform's John Springford, or move to curb access to healthcare services outright.
Report: 'Deluded' UK cannot afford to be smug on Brexit
23 February 2017
Global Government Forum
Britain is in a weak negotiating position and will have to win the goodwill of leaders in Europe if it is to avoid economic chaos following Brexit, according to a report by independent think tank the Centre for European Reform (CER).
Greek debt: Will EU and IMF finally offer light at the end of the tunnel?
22 February 2017
The Guardian
Simon Tilford, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, a thinktank, said he believed the IMF and eurozone would find a compromise, whereby the fund signed up to the 3.5% target for a limited period of time, as the price of stabilising the eurozone in an election year. “My feeling is they will largely settle for a fig leaf. It will be made to look as if the pace of austerity has been eased, ie that the eurozone will agree that the size of the primary budget surplus will be reassessed at some specified point in the future.”