Re: America
As per the linked document (and notably you're unable to provide any source for your own claims): measuring from when the UK left the EU to now, the UK has grown more slowly than the Eurozone.
Previously, you said..
Per our own parliament the Eurozone's GDP is up 4.9% from pre-pandemic levels*. The UK's is up 3.4%.
Even if the OECD forecasts for 2025 play out as per the linked article — 1.4% growth for the UK versus 1.1% for the Eurozone — the UK will still be behind.
Again, my source was your link. If you read it, you'd have seen a table under this text-
In Q4 2024, UK GDP grew by 0.1% compared with the previous quarter (Q3 2024), following no growth (0.0%) in Q3. GDP in the Eurozone was up by 0.2% in Q4 2024, while US GDP rose by 0.6% over the quarter.
Which shows UK GDP growing faster than the Eurozone for every quarter bar Q3 & Q4 2024 as a percentage on previous quarter, but outperformed the Eurozone every quarter when compared to the previous year. The joy of stats.
I also apologise that "Even if the OECD forecasts for 2025 play out as per the linked article — 1.4% growth for the UK versus 1.1% for the Eurozone — the UK will still be behind" seems to have gone over your head.
No need to apologise, you just seem to have been hit on the head by too many cherries. So ''% change on a year ago" shows UK outperforming the Eurozone. The other tables, ie IMF and OECD forecasts showing UK growing faster than the Eurozone. Then there's this bit-
UK GDP in Q4 2024 was 3.4% above its pre-pandemic level of Q4 2019. This compares with Eurozone GDP being 4.9% higher, with GDP in Germany 0.1% lower. The US had the highest GDP growth among G7 economies over this period at 12.2%.
And then the IMF & OECD forecasts, including revisions. So UK & Eurozone got downgraded due to tariffs. UK is sovereign and can negotiate independently of the EU's collective bargaining agreement where the EU has exclusive (in)competence for trade negotiations. The UK can act in it's own interests, the EU has to balance competing and often conflicting demands from its consituents, who have very different economies and interests.
Often that's what Germany wants, Germany gets because Germany is the 'economic powerhouse' of the Eurozone. But Germany's economy has contracted, mainly due to deindustrialisation caused by EU and German energy policies. It will also be hardest hit by tariffs imposed by the US on the EU as collective punishment. Trump wants Americans buying American cars, not Mercs, Audis, BMWs etc. That's kinda bad for Germany, especially after the EU sanctioned German automakers and prevented them from flogging cars to Russians, which had been a large export market for Germany. But those sanctions are another issue. They've massively increased Eurozone energy costs, and Spain's just demonstrated what happens when you hit 'Net Zero' ahead of schedule.
And then there's some other economic warfare that will affect the Eurozone's future. So Trump (and Rutte) wants NATO members to increase defence spending to 5% of GDP. Some EU members, notably France want to create a Pan-European Defence Organisation, or the EU Army that Remnants said would never happen and was just a conspiracy theory.. Even though it was an obvious next step for a Federal EU. EU economy is around $20tn, so $1tn a year on defence is obviously attractive to the US given NATO is dominated by the US defence businesses. Which will also probably be part of the trade negotiations.
Don't develop a Eurofighter replacement, buy the SLUF.. I mean F-35 instead. Lock in to Lockheed! It can fly, sometimes, and has had more recalls than a Tesla. And like many things American, the F-35 has a bit of an obesity problem and is getting too fat to fly. Or just can't generate enough power to support the feature creep imposed on that system. And then of course there's Ukraine. The US seems to want out of that sh1tshow and wants to hand that problem over to the EU to feed. Currently the EU seems fine with this idea, and is proposing an extra $1tn or so a year to support that proxy war and build up EU defence businesses. Rutte, the CEO of NATO is, of course fine with this idea. Bombs, not benefits. The EU just needs to cut social spending by a lot to kill Ukrianians and Russians instead.
So the future isn't looking too bright for the Eurozone (unless things go nuclear) with a lot of planned spending, and contracting economies. Ursula is, of course fine because she just loves massive funds and doling out cash. That the cash isn't there isn't a problem, because the ECB can just print more, and the debt can just be loaded onto the EU members. Of course printing money is just a tad inflationary, but increasing the cost of living is great, because inflation is a cheap way to also inflate GDP. Isn't economics wonderful?
Except of course for the inevitable stagflation. High inflation, low (real) economic growth, high unemployment. Bad. And happening in a Europe near you, right now! Businesses closing due to energy policy costs, Rachel from accounts increasing taxes on businesses etc etc. But at least the UK is sovereign now, so in theory can opt out of the EU's economic miracles, or wishful thinking.