Research
Terrorisme : l'urgence européenne
17 January 2015
France Culture
Face à la menace terroriste, l'Europe doit mieux s'organiser. Autour de Christine Ockrent, cette semaine: Camino Mortera Martinez, chercheuse au CER.
Ukraine lurches back toward war as Merkel urges rapid talks
15 January 2015
Bloomberg
“Fighting has already been stepped up significantly,” Ian Bond of the CER, said by phone. “What I do think is happening pretty clearly is that the Russians are resupplying the forces in eastern Ukraine and probably rotating them.”
Judy Asks: Can Europe protect itself against terrorism?
14 January 2015
Carnegie Europe
Every week, a selection of leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world.
The former British ambassador in Latvia: the Cold War is already taking place (in Russian and Latvian)
13 January 2015
LSM.LV
Эксклюзив: Вторая Холодная война уже идет, уверен бывший британский посол в Латвии
Lithuania embraces the Euro
13 January 2015
Marketplace
“All of the Baltic governments believe that eurozone membership will help protect them against Russian aggression,” says Simon Tilford of the CER.
Germany achieved balanced federal budget in 2014: sources
12 January 2015
Reuters
"The good news is that this is not the result of further efforts by the government to consolidate the budget but of the savings from low interest rates and of higher tax revenues," said Christian Odendahl of the CER.
Ian Bond talks to Share Radio about the situation in Ukraine
12 January 2015
Share Radio
Ian Bond talks to Share Radio about the situation in Ukraine (0:27).
Let's make a case for Britain to stay in the EU
09 January 2015
Financial Times
Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, signed a letter in the Financial Times making the case for Britain to stay in the EU.
Greece: this time is different. It just isn't any less dangerous
08 January 2015
Fortune
Simon Tilford of the CER, points out that governments accepted harsh bailout terms in 2010 and 2011 because they knew they had no alternative, and because “a recovery seemed just around the corner.”
Christian Odendahl speaks to Share Radio on eurozone deflation
07 January 2015
Share Radio
Christian Odendahl speaks to Share Radio about deflation in the eurozone and whether this will spur the ECB to act.
Italy’s ‘Neet’ rate is way above OECD average
07 January 2015
Financial Times
John Springford writes a letter of opinion in the Financial Times.
Eurozone consumer prices fall for first time since 2009, adding to deflation fears
07 January 2015
New York Times
“The eurozone is suffering from a profound malaise,” said Simon Tilford, of the CER. “It’s already in a deflationary trap of the kind we saw in Japan in the 1990s, but it’s less well equipped than the Japanese to deal with it,” he added.
Brinkmanship returns to the Eurozone
06 January 2015
The Wall Street Journal
“The underlying problem of the eurozone is unresolved: how to find an equitable way of sharing the burden of the debt crisis,” said Simon Tilford of the CER.
Grecia: analista CER, non uscirà da euro, troppo rischioso
06 January 2015
adnkronos
"In questa fase iniziale sarebbe contenuto perchè paesi come Italia o Spagna, vedendo gli effetti negativi dell'abbandono dell'euro non seguirebbero di certo quella strada", spiega Christian Odendahl.
All eyes on Berlin as ECB readies bond-buying scheme
04 January 2015
New York Times, Reuters
"The Greek situation makes it much more difficult to announce a QE program where the risks are shared out," said Christian Odendahl, chief economist at the CER.
All eyes on Berlin as ECB readies bond-buying scheme
04 January 2015
New York Times, Reuters
"The Greek situation makes it much more difficult to announce a QE program where the risks are shared out," said Christian Odendahl, chief economist at the CER.
I dag får litauerne den euro, som halvdelen af dem ikke vil have
01 January 2015
Politiken
Men selv om de baltiske lande på grund af historien og Ruslands ageren i dag kan have en særlig politisk interesse i at komme med i euroen, så kan man spørge sig selv, hvorvidt det er mere end bare ren og skær symbolik, siger Simon Tilford fra CER.
Referendum would turn UK’s presidency of EU into a ‘farce’
27 December 2014
The Guardian
Charles Grant, director of the CER, said that, if a Tory government were to recommend staying in the EU during a referendum campaign in 2017, then it might be possible to hold a reasonably successful British presidency.
O ano em que Reino Unido pode começar a soltar amarras da UE
26 December 2014
Publico
Camino Mortera-Martinez concorda com o primeiro-ministro britânico, concluindo que a generalidade dos entraves propostos por Londres vai contra os princípios da livre circulação.
Year in review 2014: Russian president Vladimir Putin goes back to the USSR
25 December 2014
The National
"If there is anything we have learnt about Putin in 2014, [it’s] that he’s even more paranoid about the West in general and America in particular than we previously assumed", says Charles Grant, director of the CER.