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How the US presidential election could shape relations with Europe
25 October 2024
Semafor
There’s bipartisan consensus in Washington on reducing trade with China, and the EU is largely on board - but Europe’s more trade-intensive economy means it also risks becoming “collateral damage” in the US-China economic rivalry, two experts argued for the Centre for European Reform. Many European firms have made significant investments in China, and cheap Chinese goods have contributed to lower prices amid continent-wide concerns about purchasing power, meaning the EU needs to be more “selective” in its approach to Beijing to avoid an all-out trade war, they wrote.
Trage groei, exploderende schulden, klimaatschade en protectionisme: deze cocktail kost het IMF heel wat hoofdbrekens
25 October 2024
NRC Handelsblad
Die spanning zie je ook bij de IMF-aanbevelingen aan China, zegt Sander Tordoir, econoom bij denktank Centre for European Reform en IMF-kenner. „Toen het IMF eerder dit jaar in China op bezoek ging, kreeg het land te horen dat het goed zou zijn voorzichtig te bezuinigen, om te voorkomen dat het te diep in de schulden zou raken. Deze week klonk het juist dat het goed zou zijn de zwakke binnenlandse vraag aan te jagen via de overheidsbegroting.”
Britten prijzen Marjan Rintel tijdens zakendiner
25 October 2024
De Telegraaf
Wat de Britten betreft, gaat dit alleen maar toenemen: „De economie in het Verenigd Koninkrijk lijdt”, volgens Charles Grant, directeur van het Centre for European Reform, een denktank over Europese integratie, gevestigd in Londen.
The road to Europe for Georgia and Moldova: No diversion via Moscow
24 October 2024
Encompass
Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine spent decades trying to persuade the EU to offer them the prospect of membership. It took Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 for them to get the EU to agree.
Would Donald Trump’s trade tariffs hurt Europe?
24 October 2024
Euronews
“The EU hasn't been doing what the US has in terms of decoupling from China and reducing imports. This is one of the few things that's been keeping the European economy afloat,” Zach Meyers, assistant director at the Centre for European Reform (CER), explained.“But how long will the US continue to allow Europe to straddle both horses at the same time? I think it’s a difficult question,” he added.
Why Europe’s populists should fear a Trump win
24 October 2024
The New European
But many followers of European politics assume – and seemingly not without reason – that the return of a far right US president would be good for the populist right in Europe. Two-term Trump would “embolden” these politicians, says Luigi Scazzieri of the Centre for European Reform. “They will be less restrained in pushing forward ideas and policies that are socially conservative, anti-climate, anti-immigration, as these would again be normalised in the White House.”
Economie Interview Sander Tordoir: 'Er hangt een angstsluier over de Duitse economie'
19 October 2024
de Volkskrant
De ooit zo succesvolle Duitse economie is piepend en krakend tot stilstand gekomen. Maar er is hoop, zegt econoom Sander Tordoir.
„China-Schock“ für die deutsche Industrie: Experten sehen ohne Strafzölle und neue Schulden kein Entkommen
18 October 2024
Frankfurter Rundschau
Die EU müsse gegenuber China „konfrontativer werden“, erklärt Sander Tordoir – speziell in Sektoren mit hohem Exportmarktanteil wie bei Windturbinen. Dazu zählten Strafzölle, nationale Kaufanreize für klimafreundliche Produkte sowie mehr Schulden.
Italy's divisive Meloni sets tone on EU migration file
18 October 2024
Barrons
"Von der Leyen understands where the political winds are blowing," said political analyst Luigi Scazzieri of the Centre for European Reform think-tank.
For Europe's economy, US election risks outweigh upside
14 October 2024
Reuters
"Whoever the winner of the US election is, it is unclear whether Europe can continue to benefit from US growth without reducing trade with China itself," said Zach Meyers of the Centre for European Reform (CER) think-tank."Both US candidates have the same direction of travel - Trump less predictable and perhaps willing to be more confrontational with the European Union."
CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Europe and the Middle East – just a bystander?
14 October 2024
Anunita Chandrasekar and Luigi Scazzieri discuss Europe's role in the Middle East conflict.
Mobil Listrik China Kena Tarif Pajak Tinggi di Eropa
11 October 2024
Kumparan OTO
Assistant director of the Centre for European Reform Zach Meyers, mengatakan sengketa tarif tersebut menggambarkan Jerman tidak lagi memimpin kebijakan perdagangan Uni Eropa. Sementara pengaruh Prancis lebih terbatas setelah Presiden Komisi Ursula von der Leyen menyingkirkan komisaris Prancis Thierry Breton dan memberikan peran yang kurang berpengaruh kepada penggantinya.
The UK and the EU are entering a situationship
10 October 2024
The Irish Times
“My guess is in the long run we will end up with something that actually is more ambitious than you would think at the moment,” says Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, a British think-tank.
Ein in seinen Grundfesten erschüttertes Land
10 October 2024
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Aslak Berg und Zach Meyers vom Center for European Reform in London sehen in einer überparteilich gestützten Hinwendung der USA zu Protektionismus.
Taking the pulse: Is China becoming Germany's new dependency?
10 October 2024
Carnegie Europe
Berlin’s “nein” in the vote on introducing EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles came despite the fact that the European Commission was following World Trade Organisation’s rules to offset China’s automotive subsidies.
Voice of America: Ian Bond: "The proposal to Ukraine to join NATO is still rather an attractive figure of speech"
10 October 2024
According to Ian Bond, the deputy director of the London-based Centre for European Reform, who spoke with the Russian service of the Voice of America, there is still a whole group of NATO countries, led by the United States, that are not sure that Ukraine should be granted full membership of NATO.
Analysts: Germany’s ‘selfish’ EV vote aims to channel Chinese retaliation onto France or Spain
07 October 2024
EurActiv
Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, told Euractiv that Germany could potentially enjoy “the best of both worlds” by enjoying the protective benefits of tariffs while avoiding the negative effects of any Chinese retaliation.However, he also warned that, regardless of whether China retaliates against German combustion engine vehicles, German automakers are experiencing profound structural problems.
EU backing for China EV tariffs shows Berlin's waning influence
07 October 2024
Reuters
Zach Meyers, assistant director of the Centre for European Reform, said the tariff dispute illustrated Germany no longer led EU trade policy and that the influence of France too was more limited after Commission President Ursula von der Leyen removed French commissioner Thierry Breton and gave a less influential role to his successor.
Europe braces for Chinese retaliation over EV import tariffs
07 October 2024
Voice of America
Beijing’s intentions aren’t yet clear, according to Sander Tordoir, a senior economist at the Centre for European Reform.“The European Commission followed the World Trade Organization’s rules in designing the countervailing duties on Chinese electric vehicles,” Tordoir wrote in an email to VOA.
Navigating data sovereignty: Lessons for Taiwan
07 October 2024
Taiwan Insight
Governments are paying growing attention to the concept of data sovereignty. This poses challenges for countries like Taiwan, whose economies have been built around open digital trade.