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Britain doesn’t need ‘reform’. It just needs to rejoin the EU

17 March 2024
The Observer
Aslak Berg of the Centre for European Reform has recently produced a disturbing study of the devastating impact of surrendering the trading privileges of membership of the nearby single market for the cloud cuckoo land of pathetically inadequate – or what prove to be nonexistent – trade deals with far-off nations such as Canada, Australia and India. The much-vaunted trade deal with the US suffered the fate of the Titanic; but, never mind, there is a trade deal with Texas instead.
Judy Asks: Has the war in Gaza irreversibly damaged Europe's credibility?

Judy Asks: Has the war in Gaza irreversibly damaged Europe's credibility?

14 March 2024
Carnegie Europe
Europe’s response to the war in Gaza has greatly undermined its credibility in the Middle East and beyond.
CER Podcast: How is the EU's role in European defence changing?

CER Podcast: How is the EU's role in European defence changing?

13 March 2024
Charles Grant and Luigi Scazzieri discuss the EU's role in European defence.

As trade with China booms, some Russian companies are flourishing

13 March 2024
Reuters
"The surge in Russia-China trade illustrates simply that sanctions lose their bite over time, as non-participating countries take advantage of the economic opportunities left when Western firms retreat," said Zach Meyers, assistant director of the Centre for European Reform think-tank.

The Green Deal a “costly extravaganza.”

12 March 2024
EU Reporter
At the EU level, Elisabetta Cornago, a senior research fellow at the respected Centre for European Reform, says we have seen attempts of centre-right parties in the European Parliament to “kill” Green Deal policies such as the phase-out of internal combustion engine vehicles or the nature restoration law.

Les Vingt-Sept fixent un cap à l’Union des marchés de capitaux

11 March 2024
L'Agefi
«L’UE doit donner à l’Esma et à ses régulateurs des pouvoirs plus larges. À long terme, c’est essentiel pour s’attaquer aux différences d’interprétation et de mise en œuvre des lois européennes à travers le bloc», explique Zach Meyers, chercheur du Centre for European Reform. 

Jeremy Hunt’s budget mixtape is no match for Brexit’s greatest hits

10 March 2024
The Observer
What was that massive thing that happened in between the financial crisis and the pandemic? Oh yes, Brexit, which Boris Johnson backed and which Goldman Sachs says has taken 5% off our gross domestic product and which the Centre for European Reform says is responsible for an annual £40bn shortfall in tax revenue.

European diplomacy on the defensive

09 March 2024
Financial Times
Luigi Scazzieri of the Centre for European Reform writes: Europe’s unwillingness to take concrete steps to restrain Israel’s military operations in Gaza has strengthened the narrative that the west is guilty of double standards, treating the struggle to support Ukraine as a fight for the future of the rules-based international order while being unwilling to hold Israel to account.

How Apple stands to lose from Europe's new tech law

08 March 2024
The Wall Street Journal
The new law “strikes closer to the heart of Apple’s philosophy, approach to security and its business model,” said Zach Meyers, assistant director with the Centre for European Reform, a think tank. “Unlike Google, there is not much obvious upside or opportunities for Apple.”
Why do Britain's goods and services exports appear to be holding up?

Why do Britain's goods and services exports appear to be holding up?

08 March 2024
Encompass
On the face of it, UK exports have been surprisingly robust after Brexit. Goods exports to the EU have tracked those to the rest of the world, despite new trade barriers being imposed on the former but not on the latter.

L'UE face au défi d'appliquer ses nouvelles règles pour dompter les géants de la tech

07 March 2024
L'Express
Les législateurs sous-estiment largement le défi que représente l'application des récentes lois sur le numérique, prévient Zach Meyers, du think tank Centre for European Reform.
L'avalanche de textes accroît le risque que la Commission et les autorités nationales chargées de les appliquer ne disposent pas des ressources nécessaires pour les mettre en œuvre correctement, s'alarme-t-il.

EU faces uphill battle to rein in big tech

07 March 2024
The Australian
"EU lawmakers are vastly underestimating the challenge of implementing and enforcing the recent swathe of digital laws," Zach Meyers, of the Centre for European Reform think tank, wrote in a February report.
The sheer volume of new laws, Meyers argued, "creates a risk that the Commission and national enforcers will lack the resources to implement them properly."

We should not be afraid to increase the military and economic pressure on Russia

07 March 2024
Inter Press News
What seems extremely solid to us today may actually be more fragile than we realize - although I don't think Putin's regime has reached that stage yet - Ian Bond, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, said at the Rondeli Security Conference ongoing in Tbilisi.

Parsing Europe’s productivity stagnation

07 March 2024
Financial Times
At the Centre for European Reform, Zach Meyers has a useful guide to the factors that will determine the Digital Market Act’s success or failure.

Will Europe's DMA promote gatekeeper competition?

06 March 2024
(CEPA) The Center for European Policy Analysis
The Digital Markets Act aims to level tech’s uneven playing field. This goal requires not just reining in the largest tech companies but encouraging them to compete against each other.

Tech’s 6 ‘gatekeepers’—including Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft—are about to face heavy new scrutiny as Europe aims for ‘fairer’ digital markets

06 March 2024
Fortune
Officials will be looking to Brussels for guidance, said Zach Meyers, assistant director at the Centre for European Reform, a think tank in London.
“If it works, many Western countries will probably try to follow the DMA to avoid fragmentation and the risk of taking a different approach that fails,” he said.

Inflated debate: Why won’t the ECB cut rates?

06 March 2024
EurActiv
Moreover, Europe’s economy is stagnating and “could use a bit of a momentum injection from lower interest rates”, Sander Tordoir, a senior economist at the Centre for European Reform (CER), told Euractiv.“The rate decision matters because the eurozone economy has come to a long standstill after getting its recovery [from the pandemic] knocked off course by Russia’s war on Ukraine,” he added.

Apple on collision course with EU as new Digital Markets Act kicks in

05 March 2024
Bloomberg
“The most significant challenge is from Apple, because it challenges one of the DMA’s rules, which requires it to give app developers the same ability to use iPhone functions which Apple reserves to itself,” said Zach Myers, the assistance director at the Centre for European Reform. “But even if that case succeeds, most of the DMA will still be in force.”

La France contribuera à l'achat de munitions hors d'Europe pour l'Ukraine

05 March 2024
Les Echos
 « Les positions de nombreux pays sont en train de changer face à l'urgence dans laquelle se trouve l'Ukraine », décrypte Luigi Scazzieri, du think tank Centre for European Reform.
...« Ce serait une quantité énorme, pour l'instant les Européens n'auront réussi à livrer, à la fin du mois, que 500.000 pièces au grand maximum », pointe Luigi Scazzieri.

Macron in Prague to thaw relationship with Central Europe

05 March 2024
EurActiv
“There’s a bit of baggage between Macron and Central European counterparts,” Luigi Scazzieri, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Reform (CER), a think tank, told Euractiv.

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