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In this blog post, we track market responses in the weeks before and after the Brexit vote as well as in the first week of January 2021 when the EU-UK agreement entered into force. It reveals that market tension has never again reached the peaks attained back in 2016, not even during the current pandemic or when the UK left the single market earlier this year. Instead, tensions eased soon after it became clear that the EU would remain intact despite losing one member – testimony to the strength of a united Europe.

Mindaugas Liutvinskas was appointed Vice-Minister of Finance in 2021. Previously he served as Head of Division and Senior Economist in the Bank of Lithuania. 

Mr Liutvinskas holds a Master's degree in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Vilnius University.