The idea for this thread has been growing in my mind for some time now. We talk a lot about the Euro currency pairs and the EU, but I would like to put some flesh on those dreary bones and also talk about Europe as a region.
As an ex-pat I have a country of birth and a country of residence but as a nationality I only feel I am a European. Having said that, the more I read about Europe the more I realise how little I really know about it as a region.
So this is a kind of blog where I want to freely wander around the European region looking at various nations, economies, geography, history, and anything else that comes along.
I am also going to take a personal look at the Euro against the US Dollar in one direction and the Yen in the other. I am also waiting for the end of the Brexit negotiations and the UK departure from the EU in order to begin also following the EURGBP as two distinct currencies, freed from their EU bonds and the distortions of the current interim stages, starting their new directions with greater, or lesser, separation of their ways.
Europe is a strange place. It stretches from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Mediterranean Sea in the south. It comprises some 50 different sovereign states as well as a handful of unrecognised nations, autonomous or semi-autonomous regions and various other territorial areas. It covers a land mass exceeding 10 mill sq km and has a population exceeding 740 million people.
It is vastly diversified in terms of cultures, climates, languages, histories, economies and currencies and yet in various ways also closely and willingly partially interwoven via various entities such the European Union, the Euro, and Nato.
This is a trip through my Europe and how its main currency, the Euro interacts with the main currencies of the other major economic and geographic regions. This thread has no core theme and is not a continuous trading blog even though I am looking at currency issues and directions.
And if anyone wants to, feel free to contribute, whenever…
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