Philippe Legrain
British political economist and writer; economic adviser to European Commission President José Manuel Barroso from 2011 to 2014; visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics' European Institute; author of Open World, Immigrants and Them and Us.
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Their wordsThe @ecb.europa.eu looks set to raise interest rates on Thursday. But that would be a mistake
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Their words#Brexit was not just stupid, it was spectacularly badly timed.
- 8 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThat's the wrong target; the aim should be to make the EU more dynamic.
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Their wordsIt's time to accelerate plans to reduce Europe’s military, economic & tech dependence on Trump’s America.
- 8 months earlier
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Their wordsBut unfortunately there is still often a big gap between leaders’ bold rhetoric and their slow and inadequate actions.
↗Europe needs to rearm much fasterphilippelegrain.substack.com
- 6 weeks earlier
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Their wordsAlthough China will lose more exports, it can readily replace its imports from the US, whereas the US is much more reliant on its purchases from China.
↗Why Trump won't win his trade war with Chinaphilippelegrain.substack.com
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsWhat Trump called a “declaration of economic independence” is in fact a monumental act of economic and geopolitical vandalism that will harm the whole world, and the US most of all.
↗How should the world respond to Trump’s declaration of trade war?philippelegrain.substack.com
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Our reading
The open, rules-based era of Western-led globalisation has given way to a 'Broken World'.
Their wordsBut now a more appropriate description of the new global disorder would be Broken World.