Free trade is no longer, trade restrictions are the new normal. Yesterday, the US administration announced that tariffs on imports from China of EVs, batteries,

To slow or stop climate change requires much higher prices for the emission of greenhouse gases. Since this has regressive effects on citizens’ income, comparable

For years, the fight against the further heating-up of the planet has been one of the main political issues, going by the amount of government

Over the past 16 ¼ years, the price of the dollar has increased from a low of 0.633 in 2008 to today’s 0.917 euros, a

Since 1960, the share of people aged 67 and more has gone from about 9% of the German population to 20% now. As life expectancy

Christine Lagarde has more or less announced last Thursday that European policy rates will be cut at the June 6 meeting of the Governing Council.

Last January the EMU, the European Monetary Union, had turned twenty-five. Overall, the euro has been a successful project which has not only shown its

Poor economic growth is presently one of Germany’s main topics in public policy discussions. Since the average income is actually rather high, an acceleration of

Anyone reading this headline will probably think that I am naïve, without a sense of today’s political realities. Maybe, but historically and even culturally Russia

The topic is once again part of the annual wage negotiations in Germany. If the average income is high, historically and in international comparison, the

It’s a phenomenon that cannot easily be explained: labor markets in the countries of the euro area have been robust for many years – the

Most people in the United States and the euro area are convinced that inflation is still very high. This is not so. Consumer prices have