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Europe faces new year of political instability and war

The continent ends 2022 with a war in its east, grappling with political uncertainty, and plagued by high inflation. It has been a year many Europeans would prefer to forget. [...]

The Catch-22 rules of the Euro Monopoly game

To make the Eurozone more stable, it would be desirable to have stricter and enforceable rules. But because it is so unstable, no such rules can ever be introduced. [...]

How Germany’s political failures enabled Putin’s war

Yes, “harder years, tough years” are coming for Germany. But they could be all the harder because the country’s leadership still is not ready to acknowledge its past failures or to apply the lessons to its future policy settings. [...]

Liz Truss’ failed bid to become a 21st-Century Margaret Thatcher

In trying to become a 21st-century Margaret Thatcher, Truss has introduced Thatcherite policies in reverse. She may have sealed the fate of her premiership before it has even begun. [...]

Italy faces threat of its most right-wing government since Mussolini

It does not sound like a fascist revolution for Italy. It rather sounds like business as usual. [...]

Germany faces a new kind of cold war this winter

The Ukraine war has triggered an almighty political, social and economic catastrophe for Germany. It is not on the scale of a hot war, but the maximum havoc an enemy could inflict without military force. [...]

270,000 jobs in a better kind of Grexit

European monetary policy has previously smashed the fragile plates of the Greek economy to the floor; 12 years on, they've finally pieced it all back together [...]

Who needs enemies when you have friends like Orbán and Erdoğan?

Despite the threats of Russia, China, and stagflation, Hungary and Turkey are backstabbing the organisations they belong to – Nato and the EU. [...]

Germany is stumbling towards an uncertain future

Instead of facing up to the many painful realities, the Germans are still clinging on to some weird rituals – such as filling their ‘summer hole’ with a staged debate. [...]