Boris johnson announces the first step to easing its lockdown. Donald trump combats an outbreak in the white house as he tries to return to work. Vice president mike pence spends the weekend in selfisolation. The European Commission threatens to sue germany. Therong rebuke over Constitutional Courts ruling on ecb bond purchasing. This is the picture weve got. Welcome to mondays program. Of futures, euro stoxx 50 futures up by 0. 4 . Ftse futures upice 0. 7 . Up by 0. 7 . We have seen the nikkei doing quite well. The hang seng doing quite well. Less well in the chinese market, but broadly speaking, positive. In response to a lot of talk about stimulus, we have had talk from the pboc and china, policy coming through in india. Lots to think about in asia. Also thinking about the european context. We will look to where all of that conversation goes. That expectation of fiscal policy doesnt seem to be underscoring the positive move in equities. Reopening gradually, very gradually. Economies
A coming point in the medias attitude to the governments handling of the crisis in the u. K. The 1st one occurred in mid april where fast the Financial Times and then the sunday times over the course of one weekend subjected the government performance to some set showing analysis how crucial were lead supports and terms of affecting the the accent by which most of the media were covering the pandemic. I think the Financial Times and in particular the sunday times reports were very important this sunday times report something times report was very kind of him very give a little insight into the attitude of the government in the early days of the crisis the revelation that mr johnson had not attended the 1st 5 meetings 5 out of 5 meetings of cobra the Emergency Committee which coordinates responses to crises was quote he did suggest that he didnt grip the crisis with anything like the the energy which might be expected and the other thing was of course it came from Rupert Murdochs sunday
A situation of uncertainty where we can not calculate all risk but where we can know things and also to relax a little bit and do reasonable decisions or it decisions that proof fundamentally and this again in the context of for instance masses of numbers of ventilators were bought for corona virus that it turns out we dont need why are we more scared of what is less likely to kill us the key problem you know society is that we all have learned how to read and write but not to become risk literate at least to understand the numbers so the numbers that made us feel the numbers of infections or this and also to understand the kind of thinking about what might lead to ward. Youve talked articulately how to interpret mammogram results cancer risk flu risk which ill get onto in a moment have i better just ask you then are we more scared than we should be about coronavirus theres nobody who came to tell you exactly where this virus is growing so we need to live with uncertainty but we can pr
Proud moments when we persuaded her to do that. So im honored to kick off what i know will be a fascinating discussion about the influence oof the influence ofeurope on tl marketplace. Last year the wall street journal called the decline of europe a force in World Affairs the most consequential shift of the last 100 years and there is some truth in that since world war ii military influence of europe is certainly declined, and its also true the Economic Growth has been compared favorably with that of the United States or for example with china or india. And of course efforts to maintain an Economic Union have been more complicated greatly as we all know. But still, i think professor bradford sees things a little differently and in her book the brussels effect of the European Union rules the world which is here and also back there and you must have a copy, professor bradford argues that it remains a critically important economic superpower and makes the case very persuasively that conti
Corona crisis you can find more Information Online at v. W. Dot com and on t. W. Social media channels. Where and when exactly tracing down every Single Person whos come in contact with a coronavirus kariya surely thats something only take can self that says we must be able to trace every infection chain we are working on an app that can help us do that. But thats got civil rights activists worried. That there is a real witness that these kinds of Surveillance Systems will assist all to this phase of the president it is our digital privacy. Steak oh good we sell for this crisis. What come to kobe to 900 special here and e. W. News on one of cajones good to have you with us the technology has been a blessing during this pandemic in many ways speed working from home or staying in touch with friends and family and take helps us keep track of the virus in australia launched a corona tracing app it records whos been in contact with whom so they can be warned if someones infected china is us