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Around the world: Brexit, social impact, Europe, Italy, Asia

From  http://www.ilsussidiario.net/News/English-Spoken-Here/ BREXIT/Italy to the collapse: It's all in the Asian '97-98 crisis? Francesco Sisi June 30, 2016 The largely dreaded Brexit has arrived, and the consequences are apparently so immense and unpredictable that they were neither seen nor anticipated. Neither the EU nor the Britons had prepared a plan B, that is, what they would’ve effectively done if the referendum had chosen to leave the Union . Such is clear from the first frantic reactions of the European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker, who, in substance, said to the British: “and now get the hell off of the EU ASAP” and from the British themselves, who, in the few hours following the results, garnered two million signatures to vote again, while the Scottish formally announced they would stay with the EU and leave the UK instead. However, many in the world don’t worry as much about the destruction of the Kingdom, which, through many diffi...

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An Italian Education by Tim Parks   The Glorious Ones: Classical Music Legendary Player by Harold Schonberg   Home is Where the Wind Blows by Fred Hoyle   For the Good of Humanity: Ludwik Rajchman by Marta Balinska   Dawn Powell: Biography by Tim Page