Category Archives: Germany
The EU’s ‘techno party’ is hollowing out democracy
Not everybody’s into techno music. Some folks are a little bit country; others a little bit rock and roll. But under what one Brussels wag recently called the EU’s ‘techno-party’ … Continue reading
Working the night-shift in the German austerity sweatshop – Part IV: The end of the eurozone
But if what needs to happen cannot happen, what does Lord Skidelsky, a 71-year-old economic historian who has been witness to the full fifty years of European integration, think will? … Continue reading
Working the night-shift in the German austerity sweatshop – Part III: Back to the future with the Werner Plan
So how do we get out of this mess? It’s relatively simple, really. All that has to happen is a rebalancing of competitiveness between the core and the periphery. “Of … Continue reading
Working the night-shift in the German austerity sweatshop – Part II: The China of Europe
But how did we get into this mess in the first place? In the 1990s during the run-up to the single currency and throughout the 2000s, all European countries battened … Continue reading
Working the night-shift in the German austerity sweatshop – Part I: Dr Merkel’s fiscal enema
There was a cheeky cartoon that made the Facebook and Twitter rounds a few days ago, posted by one of the Financial Times’ Alphaville bloggers. It went ‘viral,’ as the social-media consultants … Continue reading
Hurling democracy into the volcano to appease the market gods
Pacific islanders never actually threw virgins into volcanoes to appease angry gods; it was only ever a TV trope of bad American sketch comedy and Saturday-morning cartoons. But you remember … Continue reading
