DEBATE: With Italy now in recession, is the nation facing an economic crisis? With Italy now in recession, is the nation facing an economic crisis? Beatrice Faleri, economist and freelance writer originally from Italy, says YES. Less than a month ago, Italy’s Prime Minister boasted of a forthcoming “economic boom”. Yesterday, in a somewhat comical U-turn, he reported that, in fact, the country has entered an economic recession. GDP [...]
DEBATE: Has the EU overstepped the mark by rejecting Italy’s budget? Has the EU overstepped the mark by rejecting Italy’s budget? Matthew Elliott, senior political adviser to Shore Capital, says YES. From the moment Britain’s Brexit referendum was announced in 2013, the EU started to moderate its most overt interventionist instincts, minimising Eurozone problems through quantitative easing, and restricting its tendency to meddle in the affairs [...]
DEBATE: Does the shock resignation of the French energy minister prove that Macron’s regime has lost its shine? Does the shock resignation of the French energy minister prove that Macron’s regime has lost its shine? Adam Bartha, director of Epicenter, says YES. It’s hard to lose something that you haven’t had for a while, but Nicolas Hulot’s resignation in protest of Emmanuel Macron’s agenda shows what we should already have known. The French [...]
