Press
European federalism is not dead yet
03 August 2015
Financial Times
A dispassionate analysis of the eurozone’s options published last year by the Centre for European Reform concluded that a strengthening of fiscal federalism represented the best way of completing the eurozone’s ramshackle edifice — even if at the time that appeared to be politically impossible.
David Cameron should stand up to the eurozone
31 July 2015
Financial Times
Can Britain, a country that plans to keep its own currency, feel comfortable in an EU that is increasingly focused on the euro and its troubles? As David Cameron’s government starts negotiations with its partners on the terms...
BBC Newsnight: Migrant crisis
30 July 2015
Charles Grant discusses the current migrant crisis: watch it here (21:30) and why the UK is a favoured destination for migrants.
Behind the scenes at our 17th birthday party
29 July 2015
With a keynote speech by Joschka Fischer, German foreign minister and vice chancellor from 1998 to 2005. Hosted by HE Witold Sobkow, ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the UK.
Britain and France scramble as Channel becomes choke point in migration crisis
29 July 2015
The New York Times
"What we are seeing is the result of the European Union not being able to handle the migration crisis in the way that they should," said Camino Mortera-Martinez, a research fellow at the Centre for European Reform.
Rising costs strike at German competitiveness
27 July 2015
The Wall Street Journal
"Rising wages are a resolutely positive thing," said Simon Tilford, deputy director of the CER. "But we will need to see several more years of reasonably strong German wage growth in order to have a meaningful impact on the imbalances in the German economy."
Fire kriser som endrer EU
24 July 2015
Aftenposten
Den nederlandske forskeren Rem Korteweg ved CER mener det kreves europeiske svar på fire store kriser om EU skal klare å holde sammen: Hellas-krisen, flyktningkrisen, Russland-Ukraina-konflikten og faren for at Storbritannia melder seg ut av EU.
The EU risks damaging consumer interests in its push against Google dominance
23 July 2015
City A.M
Jean Tirole won last year’s Nobel prize for economics for his work on a new type of market – and one that has grown with the meteoric rise of the internet. So-called two-sided markets arise when a company brings together suppliers and consumers. Google is a classic example: it...
Britain’s Eurosceptic ground zero
21 July 2015
Politico
The House of Commons doesn't even take full advantage of the powers it already has.
Is Europe's anti-austerity movement falling apart?
20 July 2015
Channel 4 News
Camino Mortera from the Centre for European Reform told us: "There is a sense of people getting scared about what is happening in Greece happening in Spain as well. People see the banks closing and they think that Podemos will do the same in Spain."
Voters are also judging Podemos by its record as a party of government in some local councils, and have sometimes found that its politicians "are less organised than the more structured parties", she added.
"This is where they can lose momentum, and I think Spaniards are also fairly scared of change, for historical reasons.
Voters are also judging Podemos by its record as a party of government in some local councils, and have sometimes found that its politicians "are less organised than the more structured parties", she added.
"This is where they can lose momentum, and I think Spaniards are also fairly scared of change, for historical reasons.
Iran nuclear deal: After the nuclear deal, Iran is our "frenemy"
17 July 2015
City A.M
Tuesday’s agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme is a momentous achievement, but only if it can be enforced and verified. Following the diplomatic deal in Vienna, Western governments should engage with Tehran, but also help to contain Iran’s growing influence in the region.
While Tehran celebrates the upcoming removal of international sanctions,...
While Tehran celebrates the upcoming removal of international sanctions,...
Wake up, Westminster! Why MPs should pay more attention to the EU
17 July 2015
British Influence
In his famous Bloomberg speech of January 2013, offering British voters a referendum on EU membership, David Cameron promised to strengthen the role of national parliaments in the EU. But are British parliamentarians up to the task? The Commons’ limited interest in European business suggest not.
The British parliament has been...
The British parliament has been...
As Greek crisis lingers, France worries about its own future
17 July 2015
Deutsche Welle
"Countries such as Germany, which are doing relatively well, can cope easily" with uncertainty about Greece, says Christian Odendahl, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform.
Groundhog day for Europe: Why David Cameron needs to learn from his mistakes
15 July 2015
EPIN
Ahead of the UK general election, opinion polls predicted that Britons would wake up on May 7th to a hung parliament. But for the first time since John Major’s defeat in 1997, Britain again finds itself governed by a Conservative majority government.
Video on: Westminster's scrutiny of European affairs
15 July 2015
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska discusses her most recent CER publication 'A ten-point plan to strengthen Westminster's oversight of EU policy'.
See her publication here.
See her publication here.
EMU brutality in Greece has destroyed the trust of Europe's Left
15 July 2015
The Telegraph
"What I find worrying is that so few political figures in Germany seem troubled by the spectacle of Greece being humiliated in this way. The Germans have somehow turned everything around and think that they are the victims," said Simon Tilford of the CER.
Greek PM faces new battle to secure bailout approval
14 July 2015
Voice of America
John Springford of the CER said, "It just repeats what was done before. And what happened before was that austerity killed growth and it raised unemployment. And it damaged the legitimacy of the economic reforms which the creditors insisted upon."
Who was the boss in the Greek talks?
14 July 2015
CNBC
"What you saw happening is basically the creditors able to get their way in a manner that suggests the euro zone isn't necessarily the community of values we thought it was, but a transaction framework where those with power are able to get their way," Rem Korteweg, a senior researcher at the CER in London, told CNBC.
Third Greek rescue deal met with widespread scepticism
14 July 2015
Financial Times
"Greece's third bailout is bound to fail for the same reasons that the last two programmes did," said Christian Odendahl, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform think-tank. "A government who... claimed to be ending austerity will now be forced to do the opposite."
Greek deal poisons Europe as backlash mounts against 'neo-colonial servitude'
14 July 2015
The Telegraph
Christian Odendahl and John Springford from the CER said the new bail-out "resolves nothing" and is likely to fall apart even if it gets through the Greek parliament. It repeats the errors of previous packages that imposed self-defeating levels of fiscal contraction.