With a Conservative majority and all the Labour leadership candidates saying they support a referendum on our EU membership, it now seems certain we shall have one in either 2017 or 2016. The options will be to either leave or stay on the terms secured in a renegotiation, which is apparently to be completed by this […]
With fundamentally important elections for Greece on the horizon, everyone from the Greeks to the Germans must work out where they stand on the issue of “Grexit” (the potential departure of Greece from the Eurozone). The subject has become a contentious issue once again, in light of indications from the polls that radical left wing […]
What? In 2011, the Swiss Central Bank placed a cap of 1.20 Swiss francs per euro in order to prevent the appreciation of the currency and protect Swiss exports. Today, the bank abandoned its peg to the euro in a shock move, despite SNB president Thomas Jordan promising ” to defend [the peg] with utmost […]
We know that Soviet countries flourished after the breakdown of the Iron Curtain, improving life for millions of people, but exactly how did things change? In an exclusive for CapX, Tim Knox and Adam Memon of the Centre for Policy Studies draw up 9 graphs to explain everything you need to know about life in […]
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