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> The eurozone is about to go through the most significant change in decades with some sort of departure of the UK from the EU (Brexit).

The UK may be leaving the EU, but that's not a change to the Eurozone, which is a monetary union among a subset of EU members, of which the UK has never been a part.

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A large percentage of Eurozone finance is based in London and while (whilst?) I’m not sure where this will land (FRA most likely), it seems likely to involve some dislocation in the short term. Of course it remains to be seen how much market access will exist and possibly more importantly what the hiring rules will be. Still, all of this will impact the Eurozone and has already made for a turbulent year.

There still could be impact on trade, especially if we have a no-deal brexit.

It will have impact on trade, but that's still more an issue for the EU as a whole rather than the Eurozone specifically.

I consider it a typo; the author clearly meant the EU, but wrote Eurozone for some reason. I can't entirely blame them; the many European treaties are a complicated mess.

Wikipedia has this handy overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Supranational_European_Bo...

Unfortunately as a citizen of one of the founding members of the EU, I don't even recognise half the flags in the diagram.

Top right quarter of that image... I can name maybe two flags and that's only from European sports, the rest are actually a mystery.

Give me the names and i'm sure i would know them, ask me to point them out on a blank map and we're straying back in to embarrassing territory again.

I assume you mean the BSEG section is included?

Off the top of my head Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Moldova, Turkey, Georgia, Northern Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Belarus, Romania and Bulgaria are all there anyway.

I think I've still missed a handful but I'm pretty happy with my European flag knowledge apparently from that.

Acknowledgement: I would like to thank the Eurovision Song Competition apparently for my education

That is the section yes along with CEFTA which i assume is whatever happened after Yugosalavia broke up. I can only pull Greece, Russia and turkey from that.

There will certainly be an impact on trade, but it's very odd to identify that as specifically a Eurozone issue. Eurozone, EU, and Europe are related, obviously, but the trade impacts of Brexit (deal or no deal) are much more about the latter two than the first.

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