A modern EU

Charles Grant, Clara Marina O'Donnell, John Springford, Stephen Tindale, Katinka Barysch, Hugo Brady, David Buchan, Philip Whyte
10 October 2013

The CER proposes reforming the EU’s policies and institutions, to foster a more dynamic European economy and to make decision-making more accountable.
EU development aid

Stephen Tindale
14 June 2013

The European Commission should manage more development aid. This should be spent on programmes which best meet human needs, irrespective of foreign policy priorities.
Budget deficits

Simon Tilford
04 January 2013

Small budget deficits are no guarantee of sustainable public finances: Europe needs higher inflation and growth if it is to stem the rise in public debt.
EU budget

Stephen Tindale
11 July 2011

The Commission's proposals for the EU's 2014-2020 budgets are a missed opportunity, representing no substantial change. Spending on agriculture should be greatly reduced, that on cohesion re-focused and that on climate greatly increased.
Budget debate

Stephen Tindale
01 April 2011

In an age of fiscal austerity, the focus of the forthcoming EU budget talks will be even more strongly on net balances: how much a country pays in and how much it gets back.

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CER/Clifford Chance hybrid discussion on 'Can the EU reconcile regulation and growth?' with Mirzha De Manuel Aramandia, Daniel Friedlaender and Ursula Woodburn

21 May 2025

Introductory remarks: Aleksander Tombiński, Counsel, Clifford Chance
Speakers:
Mirzha De Manuel Aramandia, Member of Cabinet Dombrovskis, European Commission
Daniel Friedlaender, Senior Vice President & Head of Office, CCIA Europe
Ursula Woodburn, Director, CISL Europe & CLG Europe, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Chair: Elisabetta Cornago, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform
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The EU budget & farm policy

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Judy Asks: Can the EU solve the budget and rule-of-law crisis?

Ian Bond, Christian Odendahl

26 November 2020

Carnegie Europe

Hungary and Poland have vetoed the next EU budget in protest of a new rule-of-law conditionality. What instruments and treaties can Europe use to circumvent Budapest and Warsaw’s hostage-taking?

Europe tests the waters for a stronger defence policy: EU leaders must agree on where threats to the continent originate

Sophia Besch

13 August 2020

Financial Times

For the past four years, the EU has trumpeted its plans to invest in defence. This summer’s budget negotiations were a test of its ambitions. Now that the dust is settling, where is EU defence headed?

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