The first estimate for euro area exports of goods to the rest of the world in January 2022 was €199.5 billion, an increase of 18.9% compared with January 2021 (€167.8 bn). Imports from the rest of the world stood at €226.7 bn, a rise of 44.3% compared with January 2021 (€157.1 bn), driven by a further increase in energy imports.
Economics
DeStatis: German Manufacturing in June 2022: new orders down 9% year on year
New orders in manufacturing:June 2022 (in real terms, provisional): -0.4% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted) -9.0% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted ) May 2022 (in real terms, revised): […]
EU politics
Robin McAlpine: Escaping corrupt London finance is one of the biggest opportunities of independence
Common Weal director Robin McAlpine argues that Scottish independence offers the only escape from a system in which bankers win every time Read here
Geopolitics
Tariq Ali – The Roads to Damascus
A grim read, describing what has happened in the Middle East over the past year as a ‘mini-1967 for the Arab World’. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
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