Post-Covid EU divisions – a map

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• A few thoughts about the Palestinian – Israeli conflict 28/10/2024
• The Black Wave 28/10/2024
• Are we in the midst of a Volcker Shock 2? 21/10/2022
• God Save the King and all that 19/09/2022
• Where did Putin come from? 04/04/2022
• COP26 has come to an end and many key players seem very disappointed 15/11/2021
• If you are interested in climate change then you really should watch this video. 01/11/2021
• COP26 Predictions 23/10/2021
• A critical view of Critical Race Theory and BLM 11/02/2021
• Trump support is strong – the future of the Republican Party remains uncertain 15/01/2021
• Fixing the broken American political system 13/01/2021
• Is the Bank of England implementing a policy based on Modern Monetary Theory? 05/01/2021
• “Climate Change Is Not the End of the World” 13/07/2020
• Post-Covid EU divisions – a map 13/07/2020
• The culture wars are bad for the Left and good for the Right 05/07/2020
• Why are Eurobonds so difficult? 25/05/2020
• China probably won’t rescue the global economy as it did in 2008 27/03/2020
• COVID-19: A few thoughts and a few links 22/03/2020
• The EU in the rear view mirror 27/02/2020
• The strange death of social democracy in Western Europe 19/12/2019
• What just happened? Part One: There is no working class anymore 16/12/2019
• What just happened? Part Two: The persistent illusion of class conflict as the primary driver of politics 16/12/2019
• From 1997 to 2019 15/12/2019
• A few thoughts about Boris, Brexit and the New Tory Party 04/09/2019
• Italy is the eurozone’s weak link 24/04/2019
• A Plea for Some Healthy Scepticism 08/04/2019
• Who has the UK been negotiating with? 18/11/2018
• A few thoughts about the Brexit negotiations 13/11/2018
• Varoufakis’s proposal for an International New Deal 23/09/2018
• Can radical social democracy save us? 17/02/2018
• Labour and the new terrain of politics 13/02/2018
• Trump, Russia and missing the point 22/01/2018
• Leaked plans for an EU austerity machine 14/12/2017
• Yanis Varoufakis – Debtors’ Prison, John Maynard Keynes & the Double Standards of the EU 07/12/2017
• Greek pensions and the question of social democracy in the EU 06/12/2017
• Yanis Varoufakis on Brexit Negotiations, Ireland, Greece 29/11/2017
• The post-Brexit Irish border – a brief summary 25/11/2017
• Fake news for a good cause is still a bad thing 01/10/2017
• One diagram that explains the 2017 UK election result 16/09/2017
• The bailout costs ten years after the crash 25/08/2017
• The truth about the Irish recovery 20/08/2017
• The probability of a fourth Greek bailout 09/08/2017
• Some recent items of interest 04/08/2017
• Running out of steam? 01/07/2017
• Caution: European Narrative. Handle with Care 26/06/2017
• Handy chart summarising Brexit options 26/06/2017
• What just happened? 17/06/2017
• Victory for Schaeuble at the Eurogroup means no relief for Greece 17/06/2017
• Yanis Varoufakis on the state of Europe and the Euro 14/06/2017
• I was wrong about Jeremy Corbyn 13/06/2017
• A state of political disrepair: Varoufakis on Brexit, the EU, and trashing the establishment 13/06/2017
• The scale of the EU’s achievements in Greece 13/06/2017
• After the euphoria wears off…. 11/06/2017
• Paris hot air 03/06/2017
• Rethinking the European Union: Part Two 31/05/2017
• Rethinking the European Union: Part One 28/05/2017
• Chinese over-investment: Metro building 23/05/2017
• A snapshot of global economic imbalances 21/05/2017
• Macron’s victory in charts 08/05/2017
• The UK local authority property bubble 30/04/2017
• Europe’s other single currency 24/04/2017
• The French first round 24/04/2017
• Meanwhile in Greece the beatings continue but moral fails to improve 19/04/2017
• Accession shock, the rise of UKIP and Brexit 14/04/2017
• The German and Chinese trade surpluses 05/04/2017
• “The left is paying the price for its conservative discourse on the currency union.” 04/04/2017
• The delusions of Mr Dijsselbloem 26/03/2017
• Making sense of it 16/11/2016
• Against pessimism 09/11/2016
• The Mountain to Climb 28/09/2016
• Berlin blinks 31/07/2016
• What is Trump? 30/07/2016
• Some recent items of interest 29/07/2016
• Austerity may be over – for the Eurozone banks 27/07/2016
• The rise of western populist movements explained in one graph 25/07/2016
• The pain in Spain 19/07/2016
• The European Court of Justice may have rescued Italy’s banks 19/07/2016
• The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble 13/07/2016
• Understanding the jargon of Brexit 13/07/2016
• The wider implications of the Italian banking crisis 12/07/2016
• Devil’s advocate 09/07/2016
• The Italian banking crisis is escalating 08/07/2016
• Wynne Godley was right 07/07/2016
• Perspectives on the Chinese economic adjustment 07/07/2016
• The Japanese economy is in uncharted territory 04/07/2016
• Pro EU parties could face big losses in the next election 03/07/2016
• Brexit aftershocks and the roadmap for negotiations 03/07/2016
• Italy’s weird bank rescue deal 01/07/2016
• Article 50 road map infographic 30/06/2016
• Are we there yet? 30/06/2016
• This is the end – or is it? 28/06/2016
• The other vote wasn’t good either 28/06/2016
• The only place Scotland can go is over a cliff 26/06/2016
• Brexit – what does it mean? 25/06/2016
• A note on the post referendum legal and diplomatic situation 25/06/2016
• How will Brexit effect the way the EU works? 24/06/2016
• Where is the Labour Party? 23/06/2016
• YouGov data on referendum voter intentions 21/06/2016
• A visual guide to what could happen if we vote for Brexit 20/06/2016
• Who is the Remembrancer? 19/06/2016
• Will Brexit lead to Frexit? 14/06/2016
• UK government borrowing has never been cheaper 12/06/2016
• QE makes UK public debt calculations absurd. Its almost as absurd as the gold standard 08/06/2016
• What is England? 06/06/2016
• New poll shows Unidos Podemos 5 points in front of PSOE 05/06/2016
• Zombies-To-Be and the Walking Dead of Debt 05/06/2016
• Can Podemos Win? Interview with Pablo Bustinduy 04/06/2016
• Three maps showing UK referendum regional voting intentions 03/06/2016
• The rise of nationalism in Europe: results of most recent national elections 02/06/2016
• A documentary about Jeremy Corbyn 02/06/2016
• Some recent items of interest 31/05/2016
• The IMF caves in on Greek debt relief 25/05/2016
• Greece is the only country in the eurozone that doesn’t get massive debt relief 24/05/2016
• The Commission lets Italy off the hook 18/05/2016
• 2008 changed the the concentration of global finance capital 14/05/2016
• Where Did The Greek Bailout Money Go? 10/05/2016
• Pensions are cut for most Greeks 10/05/2016
• Germany plans 5-year benefit ban for jobless migrants 06/05/2016
• ‘The Wall Street Economy Has Taken Over The Economy’ – Michael Hudson 06/05/2016
• Spanish banks and the anti-evictions struggle 01/05/2016
• Long term unemployment in Europe 01/05/2016
• In China the good news is really bad 23/04/2016
• Is the financial sector fit for purpose? 22/04/2016
• The dangers of the Chinese property bubble 19/04/2016
• Oh dear …. this probably won’t end well 18/04/2016
• Yanis Varoufakis says ‘Europe is staring into the abyss’ 15/04/2016
• Blimey, it could be Brexit! 14/04/2016
• Some recent items of interest 11/04/2016
• Italian zombie banks 09/04/2016
• Things are getting better 02/04/2016
• The Ed Miliband effect 02/04/2016
• London is a migrant mega city 02/04/2016
• The Chinese adjustment and the UK steel industry 01/04/2016
• Signs of global economic distress 29/03/2016
• Europe’s orphan: The future of the euro and the politics of debt 26/03/2016
• 35 Years of the World’s Economy Evolving as a Living Organism 26/03/2016
• Is Greece on the Verge of Another Debt Crisis? 25/03/2016
• Catalonia dances with default 23/03/2016
• Some recent items of interest 17/03/2016
• Stormy weather ahead 13/03/2016
• The Economics of Brexit: Vince Cable and Norman Lamont Debate 09/03/2016
• Some recent items of interest 05/03/2016
• Germany’s flawed plans for Europe 01/03/2016
• Some recent items of interest 27/02/2016
• The EU’s banking union is a recipe for disaster 25/02/2016
• European solidarity Greek style 20/02/2016
• IMF admits it got it wrong on Greece 20/02/2016
• Some recent items of interest 17/02/2016
• The Funniest Papers in the History of Economics 15/02/2016