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Fact, fiction and Brexit: Truth-squadding the arguments
19 April 2016
Bloomberg
When Cameron gave a speech at Bloomberg LP’s London headquarters in 2013 he said the EU needed "fundamental, far-reaching change." What he got, according to Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform in London, was "a collection of modest reforms" and it "will be hard for Cameron to claim that this is transformational."
The EU will play hardball with post-Brexit Britain
19 April 2016
The Telegraph
Post Brexit Britain will look back ruefully at its past privileges – inside the single market, but outside the eurozone – and wonder what possessed it to give them up.
BHP boss warns Brexit will plunge UK into "lost decade"
18 April 2016
City A.M
Struggling miner BHP Billton's chief executive, Andrew MacKenzie, will warn Britain risks plunging into a "lost decade" if it votes to leave the EU. ..."On trade, the EU has negotiated broadly effective deals for Europe and the UK. Restoring these agreements after Brexit would take years, perhaps a decade, of negotiation," he's due to tell an audience at the Centre for European Reform today.
Debate over British EU exit heats up
15 April 2016
Voice of America
The "In" campaign - full title "Britain Stronger in Europe" - was seemingly given an early boost by a warning from the International Monetary Fund of "severe regional and global damage" if Britain voted to leave. The threat is real, argues Simon Tilford of the Centre for European Reform, a broadly pro-European analyst group.
Who'd have thought it? Jeremy Corbyn could shape Britain's destiny in Europe
15 April 2016
The Guardian
Charles Grant, who heads the Centre for European Reform and is one of remain's best-informed advocates, says that, as things stand, Britain is "probably heading for Brexit", estimating leave's chances at between 55% and 60%.
PiS pokazał Unii "gest Kozakiewicza"? Odpowiedź Brukseli może być bolesna
15 April 2016
Wiadomosci
Jak tłumaczy w rozmowie z WP Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska z Centre for European Reform w Londynie, KE jest w trudnej sytuacji, bo z jednej strony nie chce interweniować, ale wobec braku kroków pojednawczych z Warszawy nie może się ze wszczętej procedury wycofać.
Draghi's German baggage follows him to Washington after ECB spat
14 April 2016
Bloomberg
“The climate in Germany is anti-ECB,” said Christian Odendahl, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, a London-based think tank. “There is a danger that German criticism of the ECB undermines the confidence of investors and businesses abroad that the euro zone can solve its still substantial economic and institutional problems.”
Tok FM: Jakie mogą być konsekwencje afery Panama Papers dla brytyjskiego premiera?
12 April 2016
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska talks to Jakub Janiszewski of Tok FM about the potential consequences of the Panama Papers for British Prime Minister David Cameron.
German attacks on ECB intensify but government unlikely to curb independence
12 April 2016
Euro Insight
"There is not much deep resentment in the German government against the ECB or its policies" Christian Odendahl, chief economist at the think-tank Centre for European Reform, told Euro Insight. "The unfavourable comments about the ECB and Draghi are mostly political, in order not to leave the anti-ECB sentiment to the populists on the right."...
Free Lunch: Central banks cannot escape the searchlights
11 April 2016
Financial Times
But Schäuble and his colleagues would spend their time better explaining to their compatriots what Christian Odendahl recently wrote in the Zeit: in a market economy, there is no right to a given interest rate on an unlimited amount of savings.
Mere criticism of the ECB is no solution
10 April 2016
Frankfurter Allgemeine
What would happen if the ECB failed to respond to the excessively low inflation and the weak economy? What economic policy would be suitable under the current circumstances, if not monetary policy?
Brexit brief: The economic consequences
09 April 2016
The Economist
Later this month the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank, will publish a revised version of its 2014 study on Brexit, based on the work of economists from Groningen University in the Netherlands. It concludes that Britain’s trade with the EU has been 55% greater than it would have been without membership - and that there have been no detectable losses from trade diverted from third countries towards the EU
Have the wheels come off German miracle?
09 April 2016
The Times
“We do not know when the next downturn will come in the eurozone, but the current cyclical upturn won’t last for ever,” Simon Tilford, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, said. “We are already seeing voter frustration at the inability of governments to effect economic performance and living standards. The next downturn could be politically very destabilising.”
Dutch Ukraine referendum: EU ability to sign international treaties at stake
08 April 2016
Borderlex
Rem Korteweg Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Reform, a think tank in London, told BNE Intellinews that membership perspective for neighbouring countries, be it Ukraine or Balkan countries, already unlikely, could become even more distant. “It is very likely that any enlargement decision will be subjected to a referendum, in the Netherlands or elsewhere, and rejected. The Dutch government will be very hesitant to agree to any enlargement in the current circumstances”, Korteweg explains.
Dutch referendum raises concerns over EU enlargement
07 April 2016
Politico
Rem Korteweg, a Dutch senior research fellow at the London-based CER, echoed concerns throughout the region. "This will slow the accession process down and raise doubts about whether the EU can stand by commitments it makes," he said. "The Dutch government will find it difficult to agree to enlargement with any state at this juncture."
Bloomberg "The Pulse": Dutch snub EU in referendum
07 April 2016
Dutch voters rebelled against a treaty between the European Union and Ukraine in a referendum on Wednesday, albeit on low turnout that fell short of the stampede that anti-EU campaigners hoped for.
Czy Holandia zechce Ukrainę? Dziś referendum w sprawie ratyfikacji umowy UE
06 April 2016
Gazeta Wyborcza
Nie musi podporządkować się wynikowi głosowania, ale pełne zlekceważenie "nie" byłoby politycznie trudne dla partii z koalicji premiera Marka Ruttego, które popierają umowę stowarzyszeniową. - Dlatego niektórzy w Holandii liczą na środowy deszcz. Obniżyłby frekwencję - mówi Rem Korteweg z Centre for European Reform.
Will Britain leave the EU over The Panama Papers? How David Cameron may affect the Brexit vote
06 April 2016
International Business Times
"Chances are many people will have forgotten the details by the time we get there," said Ian Bond, director of foreign policy for the pro-EU Centre for European Reform based in London. "But they probably will strengthen that populist sense which the campaign to leave the EU is tapping into that you have a political elite that lives in a different world from ordinary people and I think that is potentially quite damaging to the remain side."
Putin looks to the Dutch for a Ukraine boost
06 April 2016
Newsweek
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, whose country currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU’s Council of Ministers, ducked out from campaigning hard for a yes vote. “He fears that he has little to gain from leading [the yes campaign]. He faces general elections in spring 2017, and his party is neck-and-neck with Geert Wilders’s right-wing populist Freedom Party in the race to become the country’s largest [in the Dutch parliament],” argued Rem Korteweg of the Centre for European Reform.
Holanda examina la profundidad del eurodesencanto en la Unión Europea
06 April 2016
El Pais
Rem Korteweg, del CER —un think tank londinense— se hace eco de las encuestas y apunta que el no holandés “es probable”. Y tendrá consecuencias: “Minaría la relación entre la UE y Ucrania, daría al presidente ruso Vladímir Putin una victoria inmerecida y avivaría los populismos a lo largo de Europa”, subraya.