Year: 2021

It is much easier to channel public money to some preferred emitters and then post pictures of electric vehicles on Twitter. It achieves little but the warm fuzzy feeling is priceless.

For younger generations, the Berlin Wall means little. But it is worth knowing about and remembering.

The Volkswagen curry wurst is under threat – and that says a lot about the state of the German car industry.

If the EU is not careful and cannot stop Lukashenko soon, the damage to the EU’s integrity and its credibility could be severe. Lithuania badly needs more than just warm words of support.

Referenda are a much more transparent way of government by numbers than the poll-driven roll-out and roll-back of initiatives we have become used to.

Only free entry into the retail market would tell us if there is enough supermarket competition in New Zealand.

The government is effectively forcing skilled migrants to leave the country, while trying to find space in MIQ for other foreign workers to replace them. It is madness in a time of skill shortages and MIQ shortages.

Countries have political rallies, of course. But when they take place in France, with its revolutionary history, they always appear more passionate.