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Two women threaten to tear the world apart
The women’s lib movement can be very proud nowadays. Suffragettes must be very happy. Their kind in a few decades managed not only to vote but to hold in their hands the fate of the globe. All that...
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Merkel’s triumph will make Berlin more unbending
Angela Merkel’s personal triumph in the German elections yesterday will not change the European political scenery much but it will certainly affect the way some things are done in Brussels and probably...
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Brussels waits for the Germans to arrive
European Council president Herman Van Rompuy in a four short lines announcement congratulating Angela Merkel on her victory in yesterday’s elections repeats her name twice, plus once in the title. This...
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CDU-SPD agree the terms for EU’s Banking Union
With the talks on the formation of a coalition government, involving Angela Merkel’s CDU and the German socialists of SPD having progressed as far as to cover the issue of Eurozone’s bank resolution...
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Renewed pressures on Berlin to adopt growth policies
Yesterday, the European Commission in Brussels announced that euro area growth prospects are sluggish, and downgraded the projected rate of GDP increase for 2014, from 1.2% to 1%. Also yesterday...
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Britain and Germany change attitude towards the European Union
Two different developments, completely unrelated with each other, at least in the first reading, took place yesterday and may shape the future of the European Union in the near future. In the first...
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War of words in Davos over Eurozone’s inflation/deflation
During the last two days, Friday and Saturday, of this year’s Davos gathering of the rich and powerful, an intense debate about Eurozone’s inflation or rather deflation, divided once again the Old...
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Does the Greek deal strengthen the Eurozone? Markets react cautiously
Is Eurozone strengthened after the Greek deal? At first reading the answer is a straightforward ‘yes’ because the other option, the Grexit, the exit of the country from the euro area, would have...
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Why is Merkel’s Germany so liberal with the refugees? Did the last elections...
There are many lessons to be learned from last Sunday’s elections in Germany. For one thing, the widely expected electoral setback that the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democratic...
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The Americans are preparing for the next financial crisis
Last week, Janet Yellen, Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, in more than one ways revealed that the American central bank prepares to confront the next financial downturn....
View ArticleElections results: Austerity’s black to prevail in the new multicolored...
During the past ten years, Germany has become a politically boring country and yesterday’s election is not going to change that, despite the loss of around one million votes for the Chancellor’s party....
View ArticleChauvinism and xenophobia will lead to global assertiveness and more wars
The immigration crisis of 2015 in Europe exposed the hollowness of the political system of the new millennium in the Old Continent, anguishing to cover the huge social cavities the economic...
View ArticleIs Germany’s political landscape becoming a breeding ground for extremism?
Last Week, the German center left Social Democratic Party (SPD) decided to cooperate once more with the country’s conservatives, the Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister Christian Social...
View ArticleThe West cannot ignore Russia; dazed Germany sitting on the fence
After the missile attacks by the Western trio of US, Britain and France against Damascus and other positions in war torn Syria, the Russian overlords and Assad regime in that part of the world,...
View ArticleGermany resists Macron’s plan for closer and more cohesive Eurozone; Paris...
Last week, surprising everybody, Francois Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France and member of European Central Bank’s Governing Council said that the decision to stop ECB’s extraordinarily...
View ArticleThe Bavarians threaten Berlin and Brussels with immigration crisis
In an unprecedented move, the German Interior Minister is betraying his boss – Chancellor Angela Merkel – and is forming an anti-refugee alliance with the extreme right-wing Austrian government and the...
View ArticleCan a Bavarian Oktoberfest beer indulger bring down the Berlin government?
In the late hours of last Monday, Horst Seehofer the Bavarian, a right wing politician and standard Oktoberfest beer indulger, who has lately discovered the attractions of anti-immigration rhetoric,...
View ArticleParallel downfalls of Merkel and Deutsche Bank threaten Germany and Europe
Only a few years ago, Germany’s stars of pride and accomplishment were personified and embodied in the unparalleled triumphant stories and achievements of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Deutsche Bank....
View ArticleGerman egotistic inward turn to badly hurt Europe after Merkel’s exit
Angela Merkel’s era in Germany definitely comes to an end. It coincides, not necessarily in a causal manner, with the extreme right and xenophobic rising tendencies in the country’s political and...
View ArticleTwo women threaten to tear the world apart
The women’s lib movement can be very proud nowadays. Suffragettes must be very happy. Their kind in a few decades managed not only to vote but to hold in their hands the fate of the globe. All that...
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