Centre for European Reform

“Down the line you may end up in a situation where markets get more nervous, so I think [Barnier] is right to be concerned,” Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, told Euractiv. “But to draw a really gloomy apocalyptic scenario – [that’s] just a political tool to remind all the parties in France that they need to find a solution.”

«Es necesario que haya una expansión de las inversiones públicas. El presupuesto alemán tiene mucho margen, porque su deuda es muy baja», señala Sander Tordoir, que teme que la reforma de este mecanismo sea «muy limitada».
 
 

The former German defence minister has significantly "strengthened her power and her profile as a political actor" over the past five years, said Luigi Scazzieri of the Centre for European Reform think-tank.

“Generally, what you see is that larger member states with more power more consistently get the files they care about,” said Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform.
That’s the result of France and Germany’s power in the EU, as well as a “long tradition, an intellectual history really, of French thinking about industry and building a single market,” argued Tordoir. The EU's largest economy, Germany, has been more focused on trade with the rest of the world, he added.