Category Archives: Europe

UK’s Covid and Brexit Siege

Fog on the Covid and Brexit fronts.

Brexit Event Horizon and Covid Mutation Deliver Lumps of Coal to UK for Christmas

“It’s always darkest before things go completely black.” That looks like a fit for Brexit.

Brexit: End of the Line

Even with the EU giving as much Brexit time as it can, December 31 is coming.

Brexit: Too Late for Fudge?

The options for extending the Brexit runway don’t look promising.

City of London Frets About Life After 2020

The City’s vast financial services sector benefited hugely from the creation of the euro. Now, a large part of that business is at risk.

Brexit Chaos Was Entirely Predictable Because the World Works on Routine, and Brexit Breaks All the Routine Systems on Which Trade Has Relied

Brexit disruption has started even with a skimpy deal still theoretically possible.

Brexit: Stumbling

More Brexit posturing, but also some hardening of positions when both sides would need to give to get a deal.

Brexit: The Barnier Cliff

December 31 is a Barnier deadline too.

This Is What Can Happen When a Cross-Border Bank Merger Goes Horribly Wrong

As Banco Sabadell’s disastrous acquisition of UK TSB has shown, a bank merger can founder due to botched IT integration.

Big Banks Grow Bigger and Smaller Banks Disappear, As Mergers Return to Crisis-Hit Eurozone

A fresh wave of bank failures and mergers are set to trigger a new round of consolidation of the Eurozone’s banking system

Potential Consequences of Post-Brexit Trade Barriers for Earnings Inequality in the UK

More bad news on the inequality front.

MMT and the EU: A Case for Capturing the Prevailing Narrative

A political economy take on the EU.

Brexit: HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME

Little Brexit motion and less progress as the clock runs.

Brexit: Decisions

The Brexit trade talks illustrate that not deciding amounts to a decision.