{"id":7038,"date":"2020-04-07T18:48:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T17:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7038"},"modified":"2021-04-18T17:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:14:11","slug":"coronavirus-the-looming-collapse-of-europes-single-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2020\/04\/07\/coronavirus-the-looming-collapse-of-europes-single-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: The Looming Collapse of Europe\u2019s Single Currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2020\/04\/07\/coronavirus-the-looming-collapse-of-europes-single-currency\/287-euro-collapse\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7039\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7039\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/287-euro-collapse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/287-euro-collapse.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/287-euro-collapse-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>As the coronavirus unleashes economic shockwaves across Europe, the European single currency, the most visible symbol of European unification, is facing collapse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Coronavirus: The Looming Collapse of Europe\u2019s Single Currency<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15856\/coronavirus-euro-collapse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | April 7, 2020<\/p>\n<p>As the coronavirus unleashes economic shockwaves across Europe, the European single currency, the most visible symbol of European unification, is facing collapse.<\/p>\n<p>The eurozone \u2014 a monetary union of 19 of the 27 Member States of the European Union that have adopted the euro as their common currency \u2014 is being buffeted not only by the prospect of a deep and long-lasting recession. Northern and Southern European countries are also feuding over possible financial support for Italy and Spain, the EU\u2019s third- and fourth-largest economies, which have been especially hard hit by the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15856\/coronavirus-euro-collapse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the coronavirus unleashes economic shockwaves across Europe, the European single currency, the most visible symbol of European unification, is facing collapse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[203,9,129,171,185,177],"class_list":["post-7038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-crisis","tag-euro","tag-europe","tag-european-union-2","tag-geopolitics","tag-italy","tag-spain"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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