That is unavoidable; whether you refer to these groups as ‘centers of gravity’, ‘avantgardes’ or in the best tradition of Eurocrat-speak ‘member states of a multi-tiered Europe with variable geometry, in concentric circles with a hard core’. Last year’s Nice summit has cleared the ground for this flexible approach. Concluding remarks Let me conclude. European economic growth prospects are favorable.
We witnessed the fall in crude oil prices from a high of $ per barrel in January 2020 to $ per Barrel in April 2020. Put succinctly, as of 20th April of 2020, the price of some streams of crude oil fell below zero dollars per barrel, as producers were forced to pay buyers for overwhelmed storage facilities.