If I had one euro for every time The Economist has said that the Euro/EU were wobbly/breaking/etc I could balance Liz Truss'es budget and have money left for some fish'n'chips.
The Economist lost a lot of credibility with some of us around the turn of the century, when it fatally misunderstood US politics and wrote columns addressing people like Karl Rove and asking them to follow their better nature. (Karl Rove does not have a better nature.)
I've been reading Economist since a teenager it is by far the best source of general global news in bite sized format. Excellent in every way from writing to admitting to mistakes.
It is actually amazing that it is still relatively in the same shape despite of all the polarization in the world.
HN has a strict bias for attacking Economist because they tend to take positions on things HN doesn't want to confront (anti-EU in this article). My honest view of this place. So you see attacking Economist rather than actually debating the talking points, quite a pattern.
Well the Euro area has been an unmitigated disaster for more than a decade and could have fractured at multiple times during that period. It's prospects are terrible going forwards.
Geopolitics doesn't unfold at the pace of the 24 hour news cycle. Correct theories can play out in days, decades, or centuries. 10 years is a flash for these types of topics. Gloating that someone else was wrong on that time frame for Geopolitical events is not nearly as clever as it seems.
"The European Union, on the verge of breaking up since 1993"