Centre for European Reform

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The Centre for European Reform is a think-tank devoted to making the European Union work better and strengthening its role in the world. The CER is pro-European but not uncritical.

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Centre for European Reform episodes:

06.12.2024
CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Winners, losers and implications of the European elections
In our latest Centre for European podcast, host Octavia Hughes is joined by the 2023-24 Clara Marina O'Donnell fellow Christina Keßler and senior research fellows Zselyke Csaky and Luigi Scazzieri to discuss the results of the European Parliament elections. They...
05.30.2024
CER event audio: Unpacking Europe: Paving the path for future EU enlargement
This is an audio recording from the Centre for European Reform and the Delegation of the EU to the UK's discussion on 'Expanding Horizons: 20 years of EU membership – paving the path for future EU enlargement' with Amelia Hadfield,...
05.29.2024
CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: What to expect from a more right-wing European Parliament
In our latest Centre for European podcast, host Octavia Hughes is joined by the 2023-24 Clara Marina O'Donnell fellow Christina Keßler and senior research fellows Zselyke Csaky and Luigi Scazzieri to discuss the upcoming European Parliament elections. They explain how...
05.15.2024
CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: How is China's foreign policy shifting?
In our latest Centre for European Reform podcast our director Charles Grant and Dr Yu Jie, senior research fellow on China at Chatham House's Asia Pacific programme, join podcast host Octavia Hughes to discuss China's shifting foreign policy. They analyse...
04.24.2024
CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Evaluating Enrico Letta’s report on the single market
On April 18, former Italian prime minister Enrico Letta published his hotly-anticipated report, assessing the state of Europe's single market. Research fellow Aslak Berg and assistant director Zach Meyers sat down with podcast host Octavia Hughes to discuss the key...
04.11.2024
CER Podcast: Unlocking better regulation in Europe
The EU has for years been a proponent of better regulation: steps to make sure regulation is evidence-based, proportionate, and made in a transparent way. However, there has been a perception that the quality of regulation in the bloc has...
03.27.2024
CER Podcast: Can Berlin and Brussels disentangle their economy from China’s grasp?
Globalisation may not have gone into reverse, but it is surely changing – and not in Germany’s favour. Encouraged by the US, von der Leyen wants to push ahead with the ‘economic security strategy’, which would seek to limit the...
03.13.2024
CER Podcast: How is the EU's role in European defence changing?
As we enter the third year of full-scale war in Ukraine and the possibility of Trump's re-election becomes more likely, Charles Grant, director, and Luigi Scazzieri, senior research fellow, consider how the EU's role in defence is changing. They discuss...
02.29.2024
CER Podcast: War in Ukraine: Where are we two years on?
In our latest Centre for European Reform podcast Dame Melinda Simmons, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Ukraine 2019-2023, and Hanna Shelest, Director of Security Programmes at the Foreign Policy Council Ukrainian Prism, join the CER's Deputy Director, Ian Bond,...
01.31.2024
CER Podcast: Europe's defence production challenge
In our latest Centre for European Reform podcast, Camille Grand, Distinguished Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and Luigi Scazzieri, Senior Research Fellow at the CER, speak to podcast host Octavia Hughes about the challenges of European...
01.18.2024
CER Podcast: The Taiwan election: China cares, but should Europe?
In our latest Centre for European Reform podcast, Deputy Director Ian Bond speaks to Philippe Le Corre, Senior Fellow at the Asia Society's Centre for China Analysis, Helena Legarda, Lead Analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies, and Christina...
12.20.2023
CER review of 2023: What's next for Europe?
In our latest Centre for European Reform podcast, podcast host Octavia Hughes speaks to eight of our researchers. They reflect on the EU's past year from different perspectives, including climate action; support for Ukraine; UK-EU relations; and the possibility of...
12.06.2023
CER Podcast: Can EU enlargement happen without reform?
In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast Charles Grant, director at the CER, and Camino Mortera-Martinez, head of the CER's Brussels office, join senior research fellow Luigi Scazzieri to discuss the prospects for EU enlargement and institutional reform. Produced by...
11.28.2023
CER Podcast: Will Wilders’ Dutch election win weaken the EU?
In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast Sander Tordoir, senior economist at the CER, and Caroline de Gruyter, author and columnist for the leading Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, join podcast host, Octavia Hughes, to discuss the outcome of the...
11.24.2023
CER Podcast: What does AI mean for Europe?
In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast Zach Meyers, Assistant Director of the CER, is joined by Kai Zenner, Head of Office and digital policy advisor to MEP Axel Voss, to discuss AI’s implications for Europe. They discuss how...
11.07.2023
CER Podcast: Where is Europe in the Israel Hamas conflict?
One month on from Hamas’s attack on Israel killing 1400, Israeli forces have killed more than 10000 Palestinians in Gaza. The head of our Brussels office, Camino Mortera-Martinez asks Nathalie Tocci, director of the Institute of International Affairs in Rome,...
10.16.2023
CER Podcast: EU enlargement and reform, migration and the EPC summit
In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast Camino Mortera-Martinez, head of the CER Brussels office, and Luigi Scazzieri, senior research fellow, join podcast host, Octavia Hughes, to discuss EU enlargement, the EPC and migration policy. They set out the...
09.27.2023
CER Podcast: A European strategy for Labour
In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast Charles Grant, Director of the CER, and Neil Kinnock, leader of the Labour party 1983 - 1992, European commissioner 1995 - 2004 and member of the house of Lords since 2005, join...
09.13.2023
CER Podcast: Ukraine's road to EU membership
In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast Ian Bond, Director of Foreign Policy, and Hennadiy Maksak, Executive Director of the Ukrainian Prism think-tank, look at Ukraine's path to EU membership after a year and a half of war with...
08.09.2023
CER Podcast: Will political turmoil in Spain and the Netherlands leave the EU in a tough spot?
In this week’s Centre for European Reform podcast Camino Mortera-Martinez, head of the Brussels office and Sander Tordoir, senior economist, join our host Octavia Hughes to discuss the implications of the Spanish and Dutch elections for the EU. They explore...
07.26.2023
CER Podcast: Is the EU ready for enlargement?
In this week’s Centre for European Reform podcast Camino Mortera-Martinez, head of the Brussels office, joins Charles Grant, director of the CER, and Heather Grabbe, senior advisor at the Open Society Foundation, to discuss the prospect of EU enlargement. They...
07.11.2023
CER Podcast: NATO in Vilnius: What's next for Ukraine?
In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast Ian Bond, Director of Foreign Policy, and Luigi Scazzieri, Senior Research Fellow, sit down with podcast host, Octavia Hughes, to discuss the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. They look at Ukraine's request...
06.29.2023
CER podcast: The politics of China-US-EU trade: Pulling up the drawbridge?
In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast Brad Setser, senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, and the CER’s Sander Tordoir and John Springford discuss green tech industrial policy and ‘de-risking’ trade with China. They discuss the growing...
06.08.2023
CER podcast: We have to talk about Spain
In this week’s episode of the Centre for European Reform podcast, host Octavia Hughes speaks to the head of our Brussels office, Camino Mortera-Martínez. They discuss the results of the Spanish local and regional elections and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's...
05.24.2023
Ask CER - Episode 9: Turkish elections, industrial policy and Ukraine joining NATO
In this week’s episode of the Centre for European Reform podcast, we answer questions you have sent to us. Host Octavia Hughes speaks to our director Charles Grant, director of foreign policy Ian Bond, and senior fellow Luigi Scazzieri. We...
05.10.2023
CER podcast: What's at stake in Turkey's historic election?
In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast, Senem Aydin Düzgit, Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Sabancı University and Senior Scholar and Research and Academic Affairs Coordinator at the Istanbul Policy Center,...
04.26.2023
CER podcast: What is the EU's China policy?
In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast, Ian Bond, director of foreign policy, joins host and head of the CER’s Brussels office, Camino Mortera-Martinez, to discuss the EU's elusive China policy. They talk about the lack of consensus among...
04.12.2023
CER podcast: Berlin versus Brussels: The politics of EU fiscal rules
In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast, Sander Tordoir, senior economist at the CER, joins host Octavia Hughes to discuss the EU's fiscal rules ahead of the release of his policy brief on the same subject next week. Sander...
03.24.2023
CER podcast: Russian hybrid threats
In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast, Helmi Pillai, our (2022-23) Clara Marina O'Donnell fellow, joins our director of foreign policy, Ian Bond, to discuss hybrid threats ahead of the release of her paper on the same topic. They...
03.10.2023
CER Podcast: What does the Windsor Framework mean for EU-UK relations?
In this week's episode of the Centre for European Reform podcast, our director Charles Grant is joined by Catherine Barnard, Professor of EU Law and Employment Law at the University of Cambridge and Deputy Director of UK in a Changing...
02.24.2023
CER podcast: One year of war in Ukraine
In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk, historian, writer, and director of the Ukrainian Institute London and Sir Richard Shirreff, former NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, join our director of foreign policy, Ian Bond,...
02.09.2023
Ask CER - Episode 8: Inflation Reduction Act, Qatargate and Iran
In this week’s episode of the Centre for European Reform podcast, we answer questions you have sent to us. Clara Marina O’Donnell fellow Helmi Pillai speaks to the head of our Brussels office Camino Mortera-Martinez and senior fellows Zach Meyers...
01.25.2023
CER podcast: Brexit and the labour market
In this week's episode of the Centre for European Reform podcast, the CER's deputy director John Springford and professor at King's College London Jonathan Portes discuss their report 'Early impacts of the post-Brexit immigration system on the UK labour market'....
01.11.2023
CER podcast: The cost of Brexit
In this week’s episode of the Centre for European Reform podcast Helmi Pillai interviews John Springford about his most recent cost of Brexit analysis. John shares his estimate of the damage Brexit caused to the British economy in 2022 and...
12.15.2022
CER podcast: The implications of Russia’s war against Ukraine
In this year’s final episode of the Centre for European Reform podcast, our researchers unpack the most significant event of the past year, Russia’s war on Ukraine. The CER’s experts analyse the impact of the war thus far and share...
11.30.2022
CER podcast: Will the EU unblock Hungary’s funds?
In this week’s episode of the CER podcast, Camino Mortera-Martinez, head of our Brussels office, and Sander Tordoir, senior economist at the CER, explain the escalating conflict between Hungary and the EU. They discuss the EU’s strategies for tackling democratic...
11.18.2022
CER podcast: Will the Commission’s fiscal rules plan work?
In this week’s Centre for European Reform podcast, John Springford, our deputy director, and Sander Tordoir, senior economist at the CER, discuss the EU’s fiscal rules. They consider why the rules matter, what their shortcomings are, and weigh up the...
11.03.2022
CER podcast: Can Rishi Sunak reset the UK-EU relationship?
In this week’s Centre for European Reform podcast, Peter Foster, public policy editor at the Financial Times and author of the FT ‘Britain after Brexit’ newsletter, joins our director Charles Grant to consider the prospects for repairing UK-EU relations under...
10.21.2022
Ask CER: Episode 7 - Emergency EU energy measures, UK divergence from EU rules & EU power shifts
In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast, CER media co-ordinator Rosie Giorgi puts our listeners' questions to senior research fellows, Elisabetta Cornago and Zach Meyers, and head of our Brussels office, Camino Mortera-Martínez. They discuss how EU policy-makers are...
10.03.2022
CER podcast: What might Macron's European Political Community look like?
Emmanuel Macron set out his vision for a 'European Political Community' in a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on May 9th. In this Centre for European Reform podcast, head of our Brussels office, Camino Mortera-Martinez, speaks to our...
09.21.2022
CER podcast: Finding a solution to the Northern Ireland Protocol
In this week’s Centre for European Reform podcast, Hilary Benn, Labour Member of Parliament for Leeds Central and Co-Convenor of the UK Trade and Business Commission, joins our director, Charles Grant, to discuss the stalemate between the UK and the...
08.24.2022
Ask CER: The EU's China challenge, its plans for tax reform, and the unfinished banking union
In this week’s Centre for European Reform podcast, our experts answered your questions. Our media co-ordinator Rosie Giorgi spoke to CER foreign policy director, Ian Bond, senior research fellow, Zach Meyers, and our deputy director, John Springford. They considered how...
08.10.2022
CER podcast: The Tory leadership contest and what it means for Europe
In this week’s CER podcast, Isabel Hardman, assistant editor of The Spectator, joins our director, Charles Grant. They consider the UK Conservative party leadership contest, where party members have to choose between Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor, and Liz Truss,...
07.26.2022
CER podcast: Draghi out - What next for Italy?
In this new Centre for European Reform podcast, we looked ahead to Italy's autumn elections. Our media co-ordinator Rosie Giorgi spoke to Luigi Scazzieri, senior research fellow at the CER, about Mario Draghi’s resignation as Italian Prime Minister; the hard-right...
07.13.2022
Ask CER: Europe’s defence muscle, Russian-Western relations, CBDCs and the EU's green transition
*Running order below* In this week’s Centre for European Reform podcast, our media co-ordinator Rosie Giorgi put our listeners’ questions to the CER’s experts. She spoke to senior research fellows Zach Meyers, Luigi Scazzieri and Elisabetta Cornago, and the CER’s foreign...
07.05.2022
CER event audio: 24th birthday reception with Keir Starmer's speech on Labour's post-Brexit plans
This is an audio recording from the Centre for European Reform's 24th birthday reception, which we celebrated last night at the Irish Embassy in London. Irish Ambassador to the UK, Adrian O'Neill, and our Director, Charles Grant, gave opening remarks,...
07.01.2022
CER podcast: What next on the path for Ukraine's EU membership?
In this week's CER podcast, our foreign policy director Ian Bond spoke to three senior figures involved in Ukraine's application for EU membership: Natalie Forsyuk, General-Director of Ukraine's Governmental Office on European Integration & NATO; Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Chair of the...
06.14.2022
CER podcast: Is Brexit to blame for Britain's economic woes?
In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast, we considered the impact that Brexit has had on the UK economy so far. Our media co-ordinator Rosie Giorgi spoke to two economists: Thomas Sampson of the London School of Economics, and...
05.27.2022
CER podcast: Unpacking the EU's new tech laws - and the UK's answer to them
In late March, the EU agreed upon two big new pieces of legislation for regulating big tech and social media: the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA). In this week’s CER podcast, our media co-ordinator Rosie Giorgi...
05.11.2022
CER podcast: Where will Macron now take France and Europe?
In this week’s CER podcast, we discussed Macron’s re-election as French President. We strung together the audio from an event that we held just after the elections. Pascal Lamy of the Paris Peace Forum, journalist and broadcaster Christine Ockrent and the...

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Centre for European Reform episodes:

CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Winners, losers and implications of the European elections

CER event audio: Unpacking Europe: Paving the path for future EU enlargement

CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: What to expect from a more right-wing European Parliament

CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: How is China's foreign policy shifting?

CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Evaluating Enrico Letta’s report on the single market

CER Podcast: Unlocking better regulation in Europe

CER Podcast: Can Berlin and Brussels disentangle their economy from China’s grasp?

CER Podcast: How is the EU's role in European defence changing?

CER Podcast: War in Ukraine: Where are we two years on?

CER Podcast: Europe's defence production challenge

CER Podcast: The Taiwan election: China cares, but should Europe?

CER review of 2023: What's next for Europe?

CER Podcast: Can EU enlargement happen without reform?

CER Podcast: Will Wilders’ Dutch election win weaken the EU?

CER Podcast: What does AI mean for Europe?

CER Podcast: Where is Europe in the Israel Hamas conflict?

CER Podcast: EU enlargement and reform, migration and the EPC summit

CER Podcast: A European strategy for Labour

CER Podcast: Ukraine's road to EU membership

CER Podcast: Will political turmoil in Spain and the Netherlands leave the EU in a tough spot?

CER Podcast: Is the EU ready for enlargement?

CER Podcast: NATO in Vilnius: What's next for Ukraine?

CER podcast: The politics of China-US-EU trade: Pulling up the drawbridge?

CER podcast: We have to talk about Spain

Ask CER - Episode 9: Turkish elections, industrial policy and Ukraine joining NATO

CER podcast: What's at stake in Turkey's historic election?

CER podcast: What is the EU's China policy?

CER podcast: Berlin versus Brussels: The politics of EU fiscal rules

CER podcast: Russian hybrid threats

CER Podcast: What does the Windsor Framework mean for EU-UK relations?

CER podcast: One year of war in Ukraine

Ask CER - Episode 8: Inflation Reduction Act, Qatargate and Iran

CER podcast: Brexit and the labour market

CER podcast: The cost of Brexit

CER podcast: The implications of Russia’s war against Ukraine

CER podcast: Will the EU unblock Hungary’s funds?

CER podcast: Will the Commission’s fiscal rules plan work?

CER podcast: Can Rishi Sunak reset the UK-EU relationship?

Ask CER: Episode 7 - Emergency EU energy measures, UK divergence from EU rules & EU power shifts

CER podcast: What might Macron's European Political Community look like?

CER podcast: Finding a solution to the Northern Ireland Protocol

Ask CER: The EU's China challenge, its plans for tax reform, and the unfinished banking union

CER podcast: The Tory leadership contest and what it means for Europe

CER podcast: Draghi out - What next for Italy?

Ask CER: Europe’s defence muscle, Russian-Western relations, CBDCs and the EU's green transition

CER event audio: 24th birthday reception with Keir Starmer's speech on Labour's post-Brexit plans

CER podcast: What next on the path for Ukraine's EU membership?

CER podcast: Is Brexit to blame for Britain's economic woes?

CER podcast: Unpacking the EU's new tech laws - and the UK's answer to them

CER podcast: Where will Macron now take France and Europe?

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