Two of the key patagraphs in the Withdrawal Treaty itself
What are HM Treasury and the EU playing at? Their dispute rumbles on over whether the Brexit divorce bill is the EU’s estimate of £41bn or HM Treasury’s (or rather the Office for Budget Responsibility’s) of £35-39bn.
The discussion feels phoney. The quoted amounts cannot include all […]
This is the actual agreement…
Below is the text of an article we had published on CapX last week about the bunfight between HM Treasury and Brussels on the supposed size of the Brexit divorce bill: in short, neither of them can know for sure what it is because of the loopholes in the agreement on […]
The discussions and calls following the launch of my Bruges Group paper “The ECB’s Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme” surfaced two areas for further examination.
One was the “pot calling the kettle black” issue: why is the UK structurally and materially in a superior position (even if we have the wrong direction-of-travel and share some of the […]
I have been in a lot of calls since the launch of my Bruges Group paper “The ECB’s Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme”.
Two issues keep coming up and so I have decided to write two notes on them.
This first one comes down to the pot not calling the kettle black. Or, put more elegantly, […]
Walk-through of newly-issued Bruges Group paper on the ECB PEPP programme – the epitome of the failure of the euro.
PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK TO PLAY…
We have had a new paper published through The Bruges Group.
It is about the ECB’s new QE programme, called the PEPP or Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme.The sub-title of the paper encapsulates it very nicely: “the undermining of the Eurozone as a free financial market, the epitome of the failure of the Euro project, […]
UK Finance’s report on the future of UK payments
We have compiled a comparison table between the plans for UK payments as foreseen by:
UK Finance’s “Future-ready payments 2030: a dynamic, purposeful and united agenda for the UK”, of February 2021; The Payment Strategy Forum’s “A Payments Strategy for the 21st century: putting the needs of users […]
Second article based on my interview with the Daily Express
about tax avoidance and state aid by companies using bases in Ireland and
Luxembourg to trade into the UK…
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1394557/rishi-sunak-tax-hikes-spring-budget-uk-taxes-CGT-boris-johnson
My interview for the Daily Express with Ciaran McGrath on the abuses and state aid used to deny the UK exchequer billions of pounds of tax revenues on UK sales:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1394243/brexit-news-eu-tax-loopholes-amazon-ebay-PayPal-boris-johnson-rishi-sunak-ireland-luxembou
Storm clouds gather for the Northern Ireland Protocol
From our special European correspondent Hieronymus Graf von Lupin-Bridgerton
EU officials moved today to close the Irish border in
response to the shocking revelation that COVID-19 immunity can be passed
person-to-person, from one who has received the vaccination to one who has not.
Tests carried out at Laboratoire Macaroonier in Paris showed
immunity […]