Monday, 19th July 2021, was Freedom Day in England. It was a day when all of the pandemic measures were finally lifted, a time for rejoicing…
Brexit• UK
Brexit• UK
Brexit Referendum – Half a Decade has passed, and Global Britain is Weaker than ever before
July 2021Ever since the nation of Brexit was conjured up by English nationalists’ intent on cutting the United Kingdom’s ties with the third largest trading bloc in…
Brexit• Economy• Europe
Europe’s Recovery Fund – No Rush as Brussels needs the right design for holding members to commitments
May 2021It is almost a year since French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel threw their weight behind the idea of an EU recovery fund…
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Boris Johnson has taken the wrong economic lesson from the crisis – now Britain is facing an economic abyss – from the Covid-19 crisis and Brexit
November 2020Boris Johnson attempted to look beyond the Covid-19 pandemic at the Conservative party conference last month by warning against drawing “the wrong economic conclusion from this…
Brexit• Coronavirus• Economy• Europe
European Recovery Political Concerns disrupt Economic Imperatives
October 2020Europe was supposedly done with political histrionics. In the face of pandemic, a continent not known for common purpose had put aside long-festering national suspicions to…
It’s happening. The United Kingdom is finally leaving the European Union. After decades of steady enlargement, the organization will lose its first member. One of the…
There is an old superstition that bad things come in three. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson may be about to find out if that is true.…
Brexit• Europe• Italy
Europe’s Identity Crisis – populism is killing Italy’s democracy – another worrying front after Brexit
March 2019This month marks a year since the last general election in Italy. Three months afterwards Matteo Salvini’s League and Luigi di Maio’s Five Star Movement (M5S)…
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Brexit or no Brexit – I am already worried about England and Wales as UK councils are going bust
February 2019As the crow flies, London is about 100 km to the southeast, and Birmingham about 70 km to the northwest, putting Northampton pretty much in the…