A majority of Europeans fear the EU could break up in the next 10 to 20 years. This is despite support for EU membership increasing in recent years. So why is there concern the world’s most successful regional block could split apart? EU Breakup – SIX Factors That Threaten EUWatch this video on YouTube Brexit …
Is the Polish Economy Set to Overtake the UK Economy?Watch this video on YouTube In 2000, the average GDP per capita in the UK was over three times that of Poland. But with the UK economy stuck in a trap of low economic growth, forecasts suggest, on current growth trends Poland could overtake the UK …
External debt is the total public (government) and private debt owed to non-residents repayable in internationally accepted currencies, goods, or services. This is gross (total) external debt. It does not measure net debt. External debt is different to measures of public (government) debt. See: List of national debt by country. Some countries with very high …
This is a list of the gross national debt of 178 countries, showing the variation in debt levels from Venezuela at 304% of GDP to Macau at 0% of GDP. National debt refers to the amount of total government debt a country has. This is also referred to as ‘public sector debt’. It is compiled …
In the past two decades, the UK has experienced a steady flow of net migrants into the economy. The 2016 Brexit vote has led to a sharp fall in net EU migration, but to a large extent this has been offset by a rise in non-EU migration. This net migration has had a wide-ranging impact …
The highest rates of obesity in the world are found in the small pacific islands, Nauru, Cook Islands with close to 60% of the adult population meeting definition of obesity as measured by the BMI (body mass index) Excluding these small pacific islands (with very small population) the greatest levels of obesity are found in …
Readers Question – what explains the strength of the German economy post-war? In the aftermath of the Second World War, the German economy was devastated by years of war, price controls, rationing and the loss of patents and top scientists to the US. However, by 1950, the economy was transformed by investment, economic growth and …
In a recent post, we looked at the advantages of free movement of labour. But, what about the problems which might arise from free movement of labour? Firstly, free movement of labour depends on the area in question. To make an easy contrast, initially, the EU was free movement of workers between 12 / 15 …