@plegrain

🇪🇺 Founder @open2progress Sr Vis Fellow @LSEEI Author of 5 books. See https://xitter.cf/t.co/9s8ThXwDJV & https://xitter.cf/t.co/R46a9r7GRA

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#Brexit was not just stupid, it was spectacularly badly timed. Stupid, cos disrupting trade with your main trading partner is inevitably costly. Badly timed, cos Brexiteers envisaged the UK embracing the US & a free-trading (and peaceful) global future. brusselstimes.com/eu-affairs…

Ten years on from the Brexit referendum, is Trump pushing the UK back into the arms of the EU?

British economist Philippe Legrain explains the shifting sands in the UK's relationship with the EU.

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Great news for both Canada and the EU bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

EU and Canada Plan Deal to Boost Trade, Security as US Ties Fray

The European Union and Canada are working toward a new, all-encompassing relationship that will range from trade to security, as the transatlantic partners seek to build a new alliance to offset the...

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As I called for recently in @ProSyn project-syndicate.org/commen…

Europe Must Stand with Canada Against Trump

Philippe Legrain calls for middle-power solidarity in the face of a bullying, increasingly isolated American president.

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Great news for both Canada and the EU bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

EU and Canada Plan Deal to Boost Trade, Security as US Ties Fray

The European Union and Canada are working toward a new, all-encompassing relationship that will range from trade to security, as the transatlantic partners seek to build a new alliance to offset the...

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The EU urgently needs to muster the courage to offer Canada a much deeper economic, political, and strategic partnership, presenting itself as an attractive alternative to what America has become, @plegrain argues. bit.ly/3UGSRcR

Europe Must Stand with Canada Against Trump

Philippe Legrain calls for middle-power solidarity in the face of a bullying, increasingly isolated American president.

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After arguing that middle powers must act together to avoid becoming victims of predatory superpowers, @MarkJCarney has lived by his words. Why won't his European counterparts do the same?, @plegrain asks. bit.ly/3UGSRcR

Europe Must Stand with Canada Against Trump

Philippe Legrain calls for middle-power solidarity in the face of a bullying, increasingly isolated American president.

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As @realDonaldTrump wages another gratuitous trade war on Canada, European leaders have been conspicuously silent. They are making a big mistake, @plegrain warns. bit.ly/3UGSRcR

Europe Must Stand with Canada Against Trump

Philippe Legrain calls for middle-power solidarity in the face of a bullying, increasingly isolated American president.

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@plegrain argues that while the data are cause for vigilance, monetary tightening would be dangerously premature. bit.ly/3S3aXEI
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Oil prices plunge just as ECB prematurely raises interest rates in a stagnant eurozone economy
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@ecb is fighting the last war. This is not 2022. project-syndicate.org/commen…

The ECB Should Not Raise Interest Rates Yet

Philippe Legrain argues that while the data are cause for vigilance, monetary tightening would be dangerously premature.

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This is a mistake project-syndicate.org/commen…

The ECB Should Not Raise Interest Rates Yet

Philippe Legrain argues that while the data are cause for vigilance, monetary tightening would be dangerously premature.

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We raised our key interest rates by 0.25 percentage points. Read today’s decisions ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/…
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The @ecb looks set to raise interest rates on Thursday. But that would be a mistake, as I argue in my latest column for @ProSyn 🧵 project-syndicate.org/commen…

The ECB Should Not Raise Interest Rates Yet

Philippe Legrain argues that while the data are cause for vigilance, monetary tightening would be dangerously premature.

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The ECB should have learned this in 2011, when it responded to an oil-price & inflation spike by hiking rates twice, even as the eurozone grappled with a financial crisis
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This catastrophic blunder caused the economy to tank, forcing the ECB to reverse course quickly. If Europe’s central bankers again tip the eurozone into recession with another premature rate hike, they will shred their credibility once more. project-syndicate.org/commen…

The ECB Should Not Raise Interest Rates Yet

Philippe Legrain argues that while the data are cause for vigilance, monetary tightening would be dangerously premature.

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While it might seem wise to hike rates preemptively, the opposite is actually true, writes @plegrain: when the economy is fragile and the future uncertain, as in the eurozone today, the pragmatic thing for the @ecb to do is hold its fire. bit.ly/4obiQDT

The ECB Should Not Raise Interest Rates Yet

Philippe Legrain argues that while the data are cause for vigilance, monetary tightening would be dangerously premature.

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.@ecb President @Lagarde has pledged to take a “data-dependent,” “meeting-by-meeting approach” to interest-rate decisions. As it stands, writes @plegrain, the data provide grounds for vigilance, not an immediate rate hike. bit.ly/4obiQDT

The ECB Should Not Raise Interest Rates Yet

Philippe Legrain argues that while the data are cause for vigilance, monetary tightening would be dangerously premature.

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