US free Europe? EU chief Leyen invokes 1971 ‘Nixon shock’ in Davos; what it means
[ad_1] A reference to a long-past monetary rupture took centre stage at the World Economic Forum, when European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen invoked the 1971 “Nixon shock” – the moment the United States delinked the dollar from gold – to argue that Europe must once again use geopolitical disruption as a catalyst for […]
