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Europa doet too little, too late aan afhankelijkheid Rusland
17 September 2014
Energiepodium.nl
Rem Korteweg, Centre for European Reform: "EU legt sancties met duidelijke tegenzin op"
West trades accusations over hostage ransoms
15 September 2014
Voice of America
“What we saw with al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb was that they did very good business by kidnapping Western tourists in places like Niger and Mali and then collected ransoms from governments in Europe. And that’s a very negative phenomenon," said Ian Bond.
Europe follows Scottish independence vote with wariness and hope
14 September 2014
Voice of America
"Support for Catalan is growing, and they are inspired by what the Scottish are doing. What's happening is being watched very closely by many other parts of Europe..." said Stephen Tindale.
Scotland faces running gauntlet to join EU
14 September 2014
Financial Times
John Kerr, chairman of the CER, warned that it was impossible to predict how any of these votes and negotiations would go. “The fact is that the EU would be uncharted waters,” he wrote in a recent appraisal of Scotland’s prospects.
Friends of the Earth's shift on nuclear should be celebrated, not denied
12 September 2014
The Guardian
"Friends of the Earth campaigned to get existing nuclear stations closed down, on safety grounds, as well as opposing new nuclear stations. So the current Friends of the Earth line is a change from the past," said Stephen Tindale.
NATO’s hopes for Russia have turned to dismay
12 September 2014
International New York Times
“I could weep for the hopes that we had in the early 1990s,” said Ian Bond at the CER. “The walls that divided us were collapsing, and Putin is building them up again.”
Germany considers giving states more autonomy on taxes
12 September 2014
Reuters
"I see very little prospect of tax competition in Germany, the reason being that the states would have to agree to that (in the upper house of parliament)," said Christian Odendahl of the CER.
West pushes crippling sanctions on Russia's oil industry despite Ukraine ceasefire
11 September 2014
The Telegraph
“Putin needs China for his domestic political narrative, but those in the business know that Russia has few alternatives to the West,” said Ian Bond at the CER.
Euroopalla on johtaja – mutta johtaako se mihinkään?
11 September 2014
Helsingin Sanomat
"Pitkälti on näin. Merkelillä on Euroopassa paljon vaikutusvaltaa melkein asiassa kuin asiassa", toteaa tutkija Ian Bond brittiläisestä CER. "Hän on myös muuttunut ajan myötä kovemmaksi [Venäjän suhteen]."
Suomen EU-kelpoisuutta epäiltiin ennenkin
10 September 2014
Helsingin Sanomat
Miltä Suomen tilanne sitten näyttää nyky-Britanniasta käsin? Arvostetun Centre for European Reform -ajatuspajan ulkopolitiikkajohtaja ja Venäjän-tuntija Ian Bond kehottaa Suomea muistamaan, että EU:n yhtenäisyys luo turvallisuutta.
Schaeuble rebuffs calls for German stimulus
09 September 2014
Reuters
"Germany has ample financial room to spend more, and a boost in public investment would help the domestic as well as the European economy," said Christian Odendahl, chief economist at the CER.
There are other ways to help Ukraine
08 September 2014
International New York Times
Whether Ukraine is a member of NATO matters less than whether defending it is in NATO’s security interest.
Letters of the Editor - Nato’s key role as protector
05 September 2014
Evening Standard
"As Nato decides its response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Islamic State atrocities in Iraq and Syria, it should avoid the trap of thinking that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', and rewarding Putin and Assad for their supposed help", says Ian Bond.
Ian Bond speaks to Monocle 24 Radio
05 September 2014
Monocle Daily
Ian Bond speaks to Andrew Mueller on Monocle 24 Radio (0:06:06).
Warum die EZB mit dem "maximal Möglichen" scheitert
05 September 2014
Der Standard
Mehrere europäische Volkswirte teilen etwa die Meinung von Christian Odendahl, Chefökonom beim Centre for European Reform, der die jüngsten Maßnahmen als positive Überraschung sieht.
EZB schickt Euro auf Talfahrt
05 September 2014
Der Standard
Christian Odendahl, Chefökonom beim Londoner CER, hatte lange Zeit aggressivere Maßnahmen wegen der schwachen Konjunktur gefordert.
Russia confident warship deal with France will proceed
04 September 2014
Voice of America
“I’m sure that pressure from other NATO members will have had some influence on the French, but I think that...there was some concern about what they were really doing and why they were supplying ships to Russia in these circumstances,” said Ian Bond.
Plenty of crime but no punishment for Putin
03 September 2014
The Moscow Times
It seems that President Vladimir Putin would like to go down in history as an extraordinary man, who restored Russia to greatness. Unfortunately, his intervention in Ukraine risks making him the Raskolnikov of international relations.
EU's new foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini - soft on Russia?
02 September 2014
The Voice of Russia
Ian Bond, director of foreign policy at the CER, said: “She [Mogherini] is going to have to overcome the suspicion that a lot of Central and Eastern Europeans have about her attitude and the attitude of the Italian government to Russia. That is a big problem for her." (From 00:36 and 04:12.)
The Trotskyites of the right are wrecking the Conservative party
02 September 2014
The Guardian
Charles Grant of the Centre for European Reform says there is no possibility of the other countries agreeing [to an end to EU free movement of labour], and no new treaty would pass in referendums.