Extraordinary and eye-popping, Norma Percy’s documentary prequel to Brexit is proof that her forensic eye could spare us all years in a ‘special circle of hell’ An emergency meeting needs to take place to save the European economies – but Britain no longer has a government, and the German finance minister, on whom any deal depends, has taken to his hotel bed sick. The solvency of banks and businesses hangs in the balance, so a stand-in German politician is plucked from a Sunday stroll and flown to the financial summit. This scenario sounds like something from House of Cards or The Thick of It, but it is just one of the eye-popping subplots in Inside Europe: Ten Years of Turmoil, an extraordinary BBC2 documentary that ends tonight. The series is effectively a Brexit prequel, examining how the current crisis was shaped by three pressure points on the European Union: the bail-out of the Eurozone in 2010, plus the Greek debt crisis and the European migrant emergency of 2015. Continue reading...
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