Saturday, 23 November , 2024

Germany

Looking for the exit

By Steffen Stierle  Peace, prosperity and democracy. For decades, these promises were used to win large majorities in favour of European integration, including the introduction...

Merkel, Obama and the death of Greece

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos Tomorrow, in the German city of Hannover, President Obama and Chancellor Merkel will again discuss about Greece. Greece and Syria are, for...

Bringing The IMF Into The Eurozone Crisis Was Political Bankruptcy

By Gustav Horn It was wrong from the start. Going on the incorrect assumption that the Eurozone crisis could only be overcome with the help...

SYRIZA, The IMF And The EU: Gambling With The Future Of...

by Costas Lapavitsas and Daniel Munevar The latest flare up regarding Greece has followed publication by Wikileaks of illegally taped discussions among IMF officials. To...

Stefano Fassina on Grexit, Euro and EU

Stefano Fassina was Vice Minister of Economy and Finance of Italy, but he left the government after a disagreement with policies of PM Mateo...

More Yes than No to Brexit according to polls

  An interesting opinion poll was conducted between March 29th and April 1st for the Observer, referred to the British referendum whether the UK remains...

The New French Labour Law

  A new labour law, commonly referred to as the ‘El Khomri law’ after the French Minister of Labour, Myriam El Khomri, has generated significant...

Forced out of Turkey

Forced out of Turkey Spiegel correspondent to Ankara speaks his story http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/spiegel-correspondent-forced-to-leave-turkey-a-1083144.html#js-article-comments-box-pager  

EU (not) addressing the refugee crisis

EU leaders are pretending to solve the problem. But most observers remain skeptical about the chance of success of their latest decisions 1. The agreement...

Germany rings the bell

The results of the German regional elections represent a serious setback for Angela Merkel, but also a defeat for the German Left. The rightist Alternative for Germany...