Europe’s Mobility Is Now Its Weakness

A second wave of infections is undermining Europe’s economic comeback

Gordon Toy
The Dark Side
Published in
5 min readAug 23, 2020

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Umbrellas crowding a European beach
Photo by Raphael Nogueira on Unsplash

Europe was the hopeful continent. Emerging from the depths of the pandemic with enviable economic figures and a quick, effective fiscal response from EU leaders, Europeans had all but put the virus behind them. Economies were beginning to open, schools were back in session, and…

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Gordon Toy
The Dark Side

Writer and analyst based in Melbourne, Australia. Investing, markets, politics, history of economic thought. More at: https://www.gordontoy.com/