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“El estancamiento alemán arrastra a toda la eurozona. Esto se ve de manera muy prominente en lugares como la República Checa, que están tan ligados a las cadenas de suministro alemanas”, explica Sander Tordoir, economista jefe del instituto de análisis Centro para la Reforma Europea (CER, por sus siglas en inglés), especializado en el papel de Alemania en la UE.

Charles Grant, the director of the Centre for European Reform, said the EU had clear areas of interest in a reformed Brexit deal with the UK.“There are at least three areas where the EU is looking for movement from the new government,” he said.

“What is fueling Fico is a sense of revenge on the one hand,” said Anton Spisak, a Slovak academic at the Centre for European Reform in London, “and a desire to control the state apparatus on the other, so as to prevent a situation where his future and that of his associates could be jeopardized again.”

Luigi Scazzieri of the Centre for European Reform unpicks the options beautifully in this piece in which he concludes that “pursuing an incremental approach” is going to be the most sure-footed way to build trust and overcome long-standing differences.He notes, for example, that the Gibraltar issue has held up implementing a deal signed by the Conservatives to facilitate troop movements across the EU. Reaching agreement with Spain over post-Brexit arrangements for Gibraltar is a key target for Lammy this autumn, but it shows how EU negotiations don’t happen in isolation.

Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform (CER), noted that Trump’s 10% tariff on global goods would especially affect Germany, the bloc’s largest economy, which is already reeling from a combination of weak demand and growing competition from China.“10% is not a massive tariff, but it will definitely hurt German exports, in an era in which they’re already struggling,” he said.

»Orbán har i mange år sagt, at Østen vokser sig stærkere, mens Vesten er ved at tabe. For ham er Vesten et depraveret sted med flere og flere problemer, som han mener primært er forårsaget af migranter og LGBTQ+-personer,« siger Zselyke Csaky, der er analytiker ved tænketanken Centre for European Reform. 

Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform (CER), said that Germany’s industrial malaise can no longer plausibly be attributed to the spike in energy prices triggered by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, as energy costs are now broadly similar to what they were prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.“I think it will take time to disentangle what the factors are, but it is also very clear it cannot really be energy anymore,” Tordoir told Euractiv.