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About Tim Jones
Tim is an economic policy and political-risk analyst and former journalist based in London and Brussels.NBN Episodes hosted by Tim:
July 23, 2024
Autocracy, Inc.
"Everyone assumed that in a more open, interconnected world, democracy and liberal ideas would spread to the autocratic states. Nobody imagined that a…
June 28, 2024
Europe's Banking Union at Ten
In 2012, to stave off the collapse of their currency union, Europe’s leaders sought to end the so-called “doom loop” between the solvency of their gov…
June 13, 2024
Italy Reborn
Italy's resurrection from 20 years of fascism, three years of war, and two years of civil war is one of the 20th century's great, under-told stories. …
May 30, 2024
Democracy Despite Itself
Seeking a second term as US president in November, Donald Trump joins a roster of politicians whose declared aim is to use legal means to bend democra…
May 23, 2024
Why Politicians Lie About Trade
In November, it will be 25 years since the Battle of Seattle – the summit and street fight that marked the end of a half-century of ever-broadening gl…
May 3, 2024
I Will Show You How It Was
The spring 2022 battle for Kyiv was "one of the most tragic – and the most bizarre – events in modern history," writes Illia Ponomarenko. "Outnumbered…
May 2, 2024
Night Train to Odesa
As a teenager in Shetland, Jen Stout fell in love with Russia and, later, Ukraine – their languages, cultures, and histories. Although life kept gett…
March 19, 2024
"Market pressure was growing by the day" with Charles Dallara
Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance from 1993–2013, talks about his crisis memoir: Euroshock: How the Largest…
February 23, 2024
Collisions
One war, three collisions: Russia with Ukraine, Europe, and the US. On the second anniversary of the full-scale invasion, Michael Kimmage analyses the…
January 20, 2024
The Showman
Since Simon Shuster's November 2023 Time cover story ("Nobody believes in our victory like I do - Nobody"), anyone with an interest in the war in Ukra…
January 9, 2024
Our Enemies Will Vanish
Since February 2022, a string of books have been published about the war in Ukraine but, for the most part, these have been histories and political st…
January 9, 2024
What's Wrong with Modern Money Theory?
Since the last-but-one financial crisis abated and governments responded to better times by clawing back their stimulus packages, a once-obscure econo…
December 21, 2023
The Russia Sanctions
February 2024 will mark the tenth anniversary of Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian territory in Crimea and the Donbas and two years since its full-scale i…
December 16, 2023
Italian Budgeting Policy
European governments are emerging from 15 years of on-again, off-again crises that upended their budgetary positions. From close to balance in 2008, t…
November 24, 2023
Russia and Ukraine
Russia and Ukraine have alternative histories and alternative destinies. After the Soviet Union collapsed - depending on who you spoke to – they were …
October 14, 2023
Mario Draghi, the Craftsman
"Within our mandate, the [European Central Bank] is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough". With those…
September 29, 2023
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Nineteen months since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the books are coming thick and fast. Fortunately, each tells a different and compel…
September 7, 2023
What Went Wrong with Brexit?
It’s been over three years since the UK withdrew from the EU and no one – not even the most ardent Brexiter – thinks it has gone well so far. Defendin…
August 17, 2023
Eurowhiteness
"Today’s 'pro-Europeans' would be horrified at the suggestion that their idea of Europe had anything to do with whiteness. In fact, many would find th…
August 13, 2023
Russia's War Against Ukraine
"That Russia and Ukraine have diverged politically so radically since 1991 is partially due to their position vis-à-vis the imploded empire they emerg…
July 7, 2023
A Small, Stubborn Town
From 2-13 March 2022 - only a week into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine - Russian forces tried and failed to take and hold Voznesensk, a small…
June 30, 2023
The Politics of the Eurogroup
Before this century's first global financial crisis struck Europe in 2007-2012, only people in the Brussels bubble had heard of the Eurogroup. By then…