Research
Europe needs to get real about China
20 November 2025
Encompass
For some years, European governments and the EU have had China policies designed to reflect a balanced approach to Beijing – neither too confrontational nor too deferential.
CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: The instability of Macron’s France
19 November 2025
Charles Grant and Sophie Pedder discuss France and Macron's immediate problems.
Germany risks squandering a golden opportunity
15 November 2025
Financial Times
As a manufacturing giant, Germany for decades dragged its feet on EU liberalisation of services in which it historically lacked a comparative advantage, Sander Tordoir, chief economist of the Centre for European Reform, told me. But it too would benefit from deeper capital and services markets, especially with the US and China becoming less attractive export destinations.
Kan Ungarn og EU endelig drømme om en fremtid uden Viktor Orbán?
13 November 2025
Information
»Orbán har været frontfigur for den illiberale højrefløj i 15 år. Og hvis han mister magten vil gruppen af såkaldte ballademagere i EU stå svækket tilbage. Lande som Slovakiet og Tjekkiet vil ikke kunne obstruere på samme måde alene og uden Orbán,« siger Zselyke Csaky.
Can anything halt the decline of German industry?
12 November 2025
Financial Times
Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, suggests excluding Chinese electric vehicles from taxpayer-funded purchasing bonuses for car buyers.
Does the rise of Dutch centrism spell doom for Europe’s far right?
11 November 2025
Aljazeera
Armida van Rij, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, described the JA21 as “a PVV-light party, with equally extreme ideas but presenting themselves as more palatable to the electorate and other parties”.
A Czech shift to the right is worrying news for Ukraine
06 November 2025
The Economist
“Orban is isolated on Ukraine,” says Armida van Rij of the Centre for European Reform think-tank.
CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: The causes of the rise of populism
05 November 2025
Ben Ansell, Zselyke Csaky and John Springford discuss the causes and consequences of right-wing populism.
Warum Europas Autokrise nichts mit Klimazielen, aber viel mit China zu tun hat
04 November 2025
Der Standard
Aus diesen Gründen rufen Experten von drei europäischen Forschungseinrichtungen in einem Paper dazu auf, dass die EU dringend eine gemeinschaftliche Kraftanstrengung unternehmen sollte, um der Autoindustrie zu helfen. Beteiligt sind die deutsche Bertelsmann-Stiftung, das Jacques-Delors-Zentrum und das Londoner Centre for European Reform.
Strach z úpadku: Jak se Evropa stala rukojmím vlastní nejistoty
04 November 2025
Ekonomický magazín
Sander Tordoir z Centre for European Reform upozorňuje na klíčový problém: individuálně může být rozhodnutí šetřit racionální – stárnoucí populace potřebuje rezervy na důchod. Jenže když to dělají všichni najednou, „vede to k suboptimálnímu výsledku pro agregátní poptávku a produkci“.
The rise of Germany’s new right
03 November 2025
PBS Frontline
“Right now, it is done to undermine unity for Ukraine,” political scientist Armida van Rij, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, tells FRONTLINE. “But the longer term goal is to just cause chaos and disorder in Europe more broadly.”
Europe’s frightful economy
01 November 2025
EurActiv
Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, has suggested that Europeans’ high savings rate – which, at 15.4%, is more than three times that of the US – can be brought down, and channelled into productive investments by specific government policies, such as consumer subsidies for electric vehicles.
‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache
31 October 2025
The Guardian
“You would have expected the UK – given the size of its finance sector – to have done at least as well, if not better, than other countries,” says John Springford, an associate fellow at the Centre for European Reform.“But financial services output has been pretty weak since 2016. And there hasn’t been a great deal of investment in the sector either.”
Europese media opgelucht na verkiezingsuitslag, maar: ‘Solide worteling radicaal-rechts zit formatie in de weg’
31 October 2025
de Volkskrant
De uitslag biedt hoop dat Nederland kan terugkeren naar de Europese arena als ‘constructieve, zuinige dealmaker’, stelt Sander Tordoir van de denktank Centre for European Reform.
Netherlands election 2025: Rob Jetten could become youngest leader after close tie with Geert Wilders
30 October 2025
The Independent
The election is "unlikely to mark the end of populism in the Netherlands", said Armida van Rij, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform think-tank.
Liberal leader poised to become next Dutch prime minister
30 October 2025
Financial Times
“There is a real risk of coalition gridlock between two pathways — D66’s preferred broad alliance and the VVD’s push to include the small hard-right JA21,” said Sander Tordoir, a researcher with the Centre for European Reform think-tank.
Europe’s MAGA takeover gets a Dutch reality check
30 October 2025
Bloomberg
“(Wilders’) influence on policy is alive and well,” says Armida van Rij, of the Centre for European Reform. The symbolism of D66 leader Jetten’s big convention speech in front of a huge image of the Dutch flag shows the effort to reclaim the nationalist narrative from what he dubbed the “politics of negativity.”
Dutch election stuns in night full of surprises: What you need to know
30 October 2025
Euronews
Armida van Rij, senior research fellow at think tank Centre for European Reform (CER) said: "The election results won't mark the end of populism in the Netherlands. While the PVV may have lost seats, the far-right vote has not disappeared, it has splintered. About 30% of PVV voters in 2023 now vote for JA21.”
Come funziona l'allargamento dell'Unione europea e può riprendere slancio?
29 October 2025
Euronews
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".
Centrist D66 party expected to win most seats in Netherlands election – as it happened
29 October 2025
The Guardian
Armida van Rij, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, has this take on today’s election: “Two years after the last election and a highly unstable coalition, this is the Netherlands’ opportunity to bring back stability to the country. It faces a number of pressuring policy issues:housing shortages, maintaining affordable care and, increasingly, concerns about rule of law in the country.