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The coronavirus pandemic has seen the EU s economic divisions come to light as the bloc suffers a recession. Throughout 2020, leaders negotiated a recovery fund worth over £500billion designed to stimulate the economy. But member states clashed over spending, distribution of the fund and the rule of law, leading to a standoff between Hungary, Poland and the rest of the bloc. Economic differences have existed for decades in the EU, with northern nations generally advocating restricted spending and southern countries calling for inves
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Brexit represented the first occasion a country has left the EU in its current form, sending shockwaves through Europe. The UK s decision coincided with rising euroscepticism in some of the EU s biggest member states, and sparked speculation over who could be next to leave the bloc. In 2017, Dutch pollster Maurice de Hond undertook a survey in which 56 percent of Dutch people were in favour of leaving the EU if there was a referendum tomorrow. This led to Robert Oulds, Directo
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Last week, the EU sought help in the US to try and give its vaccine rollout some momentum after controversy over the AstraZeneca jab. The Anglo-Swedish company slashed the amount of doses it would deliver to the EU earlier this year, leading to a tense political row. In January, French President Emmanuel Macron falsely claimed the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was quasi-ineffective for over-65s, hours before it was approved by regulators for use on all adults in the EU. But ta
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Given that the UK was a major player in the EU before leaving in 2020, Brexit is sure to change the dynamic of the bloc. This will be felt in Sweden and Denmark in particular, given the Scandinavian countries close alignment with Britain when it come to European issues. When the EU was negotiating its coronavirus recovery fund, professor of political science Marlene Wind said the two countries had united having previously relied on the UK. She said: “Until now we have been hiding be
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Recent years in the EU have been chaotic after the UK voted to leave the bloc and a pandemic plunged the world s economy into free-fall. Disputes over economic policy have rumbled on for years inside the EU, as northern European countries consistently argue for conservative spending plans to the frustration of southern countries such as Italy and Spain. While economic splits in the bloc have been well documented, a study found a surprising number of Europeans feared two EU mem