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Associated
Press, 2 December 2008
Euro
gains new luster in hard times
Katinka Barysch, an analyst at the London-based
Centre for European Reform think-tank, said the
currency swings of recent months have sold the benefits
of the euro as a safe haven to many east European
states. "The very stark experience of being
in the middle of a global economic storm means they
have felt very cold and uncomfortable," she
said.
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Deutsche
Welle, 2 December 2008
Czech
President: EU's outspoken global warming doubter
Having Klaus at the helm of the 27-member bloc "is
clearly going to cause some anxiety," said
Simon Tilford, chief economist at the London-based
Centre for European Reform. While presidential office
in the Czech Republic is largely ceremonial and
the center-right government of Prime Minister Mirek
Topolanek does not share Klaus' views, western Europe
worries that "Czechs would not attach as much
priority" to the climate efforts, Tilford said.
"It is unfair to say: If we don't agree this
year we won't have it," he said. "But
there are some concerns because the Czech government
is not as enthusiastic."
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Voice
of America, 1 December 2008
EU
finance ministers to discuss $253 billion economic
stimulus plan
Analyst Katinka Barysch, of the Centre for European
Reform in London, believes the ministers will come
to some kind of consensus at the end of the meeting,
Tuesday. "Hopefully
a fairly united statement that the EU governments
acknowledge that a fiscal stimulus is needed,"
she said. "That any protective reactions will
have to be resisted. That there will be some kind
of watering down of the stability and growth pact.
That they will allow the European Commission to
accelerate spending on regional aid projects and
infrastructure projects, which means losing some
of the rules that we usually apply to that spending."
..."There are obviously big divisions and Germany,
particularly, is in the dock, because people say
Germany, despite its very sound budget position
and despite its big external surplus, isn't really
willing to put as much into a fiscal stimulus as
other countries are doing," continued Barysch.
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EU
Observer, 1 December 2008
EU-China
relations continue to fray
The latest summit and death penalty row could play
into the hands of European leaders keen to restrict
the flow of Chinese imports during the EU's economic
downturn, experts warn. "Protectionist sentiment
toward China in Europe has been growing for a while,"
Centre for European Reform analyst Katinka Barysch
wrote in the Wall Street Journal. "Anti-China
sentiment is on the rise in Germany ...Even in traditionally
liberal Britain, people who see China as an economic
threat outnumber those who see it as an opportunity
by four to one."
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Deutsche
Presse-Agentur, 26 November 2008
EU
calls for 200 billion-euro economic stimulus plan
"(The figure of) 1.5 per cent is a significant
amount, but most will be distributed at the national
level, and the question is how much will qualify
as genuine stimulus and how much will be devoted
to shoring up competitivity in key sectors,"
Simon Tilford, chief economist at the London-based
Centre for European Reform told dpa.
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The
Earth Times, 25 November 2008
Czech
president: EU's most outspoken global warming doubter
Having Klaus at the helm of the 27-member bloc "is
clearly going to cause some anxiety", said
Simon Tilford, chief economist at the London-based
Centre for European Reform. While presidential office
in the Czech Republic is largely ceremonial and
the centre-right government of Prime Minister Mirek
Topolanek does not share Klaus' views, Western Europe
worries that "Czechs would not attach as much
priority" to the climate efforts, Tilford said.
"It is unfair to say: If we don't agree this
year we won't have it," he said. "But
there are some concerns because the Czech government
is not as enthusiastic."
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Trend News, 21 November 2008
Doubts
in Europe regarding successful Czech chairmanship
to EU
Hugo Brady, researcher of the Centre for European
Reform, mentioned individualism of Klaus, who is
constantly, basically refuses to take the usual
role in the presidential democracy and not commit
on matters that are handled by the prime-ministers
and the executives. Klaus, a long standing eurosceptic,
campaigns against the adopting of Lisbon Treaty,
although in Czech Republic the parliament is responsible
for the foreign policy, not the president. Brady
indicates non-diplomacy of Klaus. "There is
a diplomatic mess in the Czech Republic," he
told TrendNews by telephone. Brady considers the
actions of the Czech President during his visit
to Ireland non-diplomatic and inappropriate.
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