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Trumps krav på Grönland hotar Nato i grunden, säger expert inför avgörande möte
13 January 2026
YLE
Danmarks statsminister Mette Frederiksen varnar för att ett övertagande av det autonoma öriket kan innebära slutet för Nato. Forskaren Armida van Rij vid tankesmedjan Centre for European Reform håller med.– Om en allierad bryter mot en annan allierads suveränitet utan rättslig grund är det slutet för alliansen, säger van Rij.
European firms hit hiring brakes over AI and slowing growth
12 January 2026
Deutsche Welle
"A lot of drudge tasks can be pushed to AI to free up human labor," John Springford, a labor market expert at the Centre for European Reform, told DW. "But there's a good reason to believe that professional, knowledge work won't shrink."
La UE se pliega ante Trump
11 January 2026
El Correo
En un momento en el que la geopolítica se ha vuelto más importante que nunca, el subdirector del 'think tank' Centre for European Reform (CER), Ian Bond, apunta que «Europa no está a la altura y no está pensando geopolíticamente. Si no trabaja en su área de influencia, podría acabar bajo el área de influencia de otro».
Europe faces a pincer attack from White House ideologues backed by Silicon Valley and its far-right proxies
08 January 2026
The Guardian
US tech bosses are exerting leverage on EU regulators via Trump and Vance. But Europe isn’t powerless, and it isn’t alone.
EU faces defining six months as Trump doctrine, trade tensions test strategic autonomy
07 January 2026
Courthouse News Service
“Europe will probably continue to be reactive,” Ian Bond, deputy director at the London-based Centre for European Reform, told Courthouse News. “It is hard to break their defense dependency on the US, so they won’t want to take precipitate steps.”
Starmer's biggest rival is auditioning for his job
03 January 2026
Bloomberg
Another pro-Brussels think tank, the Centre for European Reform, takes a more hardheaded view. The economic boost only comes if Britain aligns its regulations with its neighbors and the EU lets it access its single market.
That deal is not on the table. Even piecemeal single-market access would mean making hefty payments to Brussels. “The more barriers to trade you want to remove the more you have to offer on alignment, money and movement (on immigration controls),” the CER wrote.
That deal is not on the table. Even piecemeal single-market access would mean making hefty payments to Brussels. “The more barriers to trade you want to remove the more you have to offer on alignment, money and movement (on immigration controls),” the CER wrote.