Posted on August 23, 2015. Tags: catalonia, Democracy, euro, European Union, eurozone crisis, Francois Mitterand, Germany, Helmut Kohl, Hitler, Kissinger, Legitimacy, Merkel, NATO, Nazis, Scotland, Soviet Union, Weimar
This article was originally published by The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in Carnegie Ethics Online on 17 August 2015. In Klaus Harpprecht’s 1995 biography of Thomas Mann, he highlights a statement which Mann wrote in 1947, which, as Harpprecht puts it, “one reads with a distinct shiver half a century later”: In […]
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Posted in Europe, Germany, Global Economy, World
Posted on February 16, 2015. Tags: austerity, current account surplus, Economics, euro, exports, Germany, greece, grexit, international trade
With Greek debt negotiations reaching a critical point, it may be time for a reminder that there are more problems within the eurozone than just southern European debt. Austerity rightly remains firmly in the headlines, but looking beyond the struggles in Athens reveals that economic changes may be needed further north. Indeed, while the new […]
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Posted in Economic Security, Economics, Europe, Germany, Global Economy, World