{"id":141966,"date":"2020-02-19T21:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/sliding-flaws-eu-publishes-misleading-brexit-chart\/"},"modified":"2020-02-19T21:00:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T21:00:18","slug":"sliding-flaws-eu-publishes-misleading-brexit-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/sliding-flaws-eu-publishes-misleading-brexit-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Sliding flaws: EU publishes misleading Brexit chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels latest salvo in a war of slides with the U.K. could backfire.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vonderburchard\/status\/1230118491942006784\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published new slides<\/a> to hit back at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Number10press\/status\/1229893225663602693\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.K. governments insistence<\/a> that it should be offered the same deal as Canada, an included chart that appears to be misleading.<\/p>\n<p>In the presentation, titled \u201cU.K. is different from other trade partners,\u201d the Commission made the point that Britains trade with the EU is larger than that of Canada, Japan, Switzerland or Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The new chart featured bubbles that it said represented each countrys \u201ctrade volume with the EU.\u201d But the U.K. bubble appeared much bigger than the trade volumes would allow for.<\/p>\n<p>POLITICO asked the Commission for the underlying figures, which underscored the problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Brexit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Brexit<\/a> battles: EU hits back at U.K., saying Britain cannot be treated like Canada because it&#039;s much closer (33 km vs. 5000 km) and exports to EU are &quot;considerably&quot; bigger (\u20ac197 billion vs. \u20ac125 billion for Canada, Japan and South Korea together). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TIZXoJEcT7\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/TIZXoJEcT7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oTugf9rBb1\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/oTugf9rBb1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hans von der Burchard (@vonderburchard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vonderburchard\/status\/1230118491942006784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 19, 2020<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Take Japan: Its trade volume with the EU stood at some \u20ac117.1 billion in 2018, compared with the U.K.s \u20ac516.6 billion. That means the bubble representing the U.K. should be about 4.4 times larger than the bubble representing Japan. On the EUs chart, the U.K. bubble is more than 16 times larger than Japans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statslab.cam.ac.uk\/~david\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Spiegelhalter<\/a>, a professor of the public understanding of risk at Cambridge University, said the Commissions approach was \u201cindefensible\u201d and went against \u201cstandard<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/sliding-flaws-eu-publishes-misleading-brexit-chart\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><br \/>\n[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/snap.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/politico-logo.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">politico<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels latest salvo in a war of slides with the U.K. could backfire.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission on W..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sliding flaws: EU publishes misleading Brexit chart - Business News Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Brussels latest salvo in a war of slides with the U.K. could backfire. 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