29 charts that explain Brexit

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29 charts that explain Brexit

From financial services to the creative industry, from trade to migration, this selection of charts maps out the troubled waters of Brexit, and provid

Publishing date: 28 March 2017
Authors: Giuseppe Porcaro

From: by Uuriintuya Batsaikhan

From: by Zsolt Darvas

From: by Pia Hüttl and Silvia Merler

From: by Filippo Biondi and Robert Kalcik

Trade flows between the EU, the US and the UK

From: by Silvia Merler

From: by André Sapir

From: by Alicia Garcia-Herrero and Jianwei Xu

From: by Dirk Schoenmaker

From: by Pia Hüttl and Silvia Merler

From: by Pia Hüttl and Jaume Marti Romero

From: by Uuriintuya Batsaikhan, Robert Kalcik, Dirk Schoenmaker

From: by André Sapir, Dirk Schoenmaker, Nicolas Veron

From: by Maria Demertzis and Enrico Nano

From: by Zsolt Darvas, Konstantinos Efstathiou, Inês Goncalves Raposo

From: by Zsolt Darvas

From: by Henrik Müller and Giuseppe Porcaro

The figure depicts the results by showing the overall mood in the “Twittersphere” over time. Values of zero represent a balanced view where tweets containing a predominantly pro-Brexit (positive values) and a pro-Remain stance (negative values) offset each other.

About the authors

Giuseppe Porcaro

Giuseppe Porcaro led the outreach activities of Bruegel, including communications, media, events, publications and hosted the Bruegel podcast series until October 2023. He was responsible for membership relations, supported the governance of the organisation, and was the board secretary. He also lead the Human Resources department and was part of the organisation's senior management.

Giuseppe's research interests lie with issues related to technological changes and how they affect policymaking and democracy, as well as to narratives about European futures and their policy implications in the current global geopolitical context.

Giuseppe joined Bruegel in 2014, and was the head of communications and events until 2019. He has been Secretary-General of the European Youth Forum between 2009 and 2014, UN and Global Affairs coordinator at the Youth Forum from 2007 to 2009, and previously worked at the World Bank in Kosovo and Paris as well as the European Office of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement. Giuseppe holds a Ph.D. in Geography of Development at the University of Naples "L'Orientale". He is also a science-fiction writer, and author of a novel about Europe and the future of democracy.

He is fluent in English, Italian, French, and Spanish.