Germany
Germany and allies: They want to make a new Greece out...
EU agrees on €500B of economic aid but no ‘corona bonds’
‘I will never be OK’ with eurobonds, Dutch finance minister says.
By Bjarke Smith-Meyer
4/10/20
Brussels’...
Pourquoi l’annulation de la dette allemande de 1953 n’est pas reproductible...
par Eric Toussaint
Mar. 27, 2018
En 2019, la Banque mondiale (BM) et le FMI atteignent l’âge de 75 ans. Ces deux institutions financières internationales (IFI), créées...
Democratic leaders win surge of approval during Covid-19 crisis
Political scientists warn ‘rally round flag’ effect won’t last and populist parties will bounce back
By Jon Henley
2 Apr 2020
The approval ratings of democratic leaders...
The EU crisis
Corona Bonds: Administer with Caution
By Sergi Cutillas, Albert Medina,
Pablo Cotarelo, Marc Lascorz
March 27, 2020
Once again, the Covid-19 crisis has exposed the Eurozone’s weaknesses....
Shockwave – Adam Tooze on the pandemic’s consequences for the world...
3 April, 2020
In March, as Europe and the US began to apprehend the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic, investors panicked. Financial markets plunged. The...
Linke: Federal Government must end blockade of corona bonds
Before the start of the Eurogroup meeting this afternoon, Jörg Schindler, Federal Executive Director of the party DIE LINKE and Martin Schirdewan, Co-Chairman of...
Why the 1953 cancellation of German debt won’t be reproduced for...
Photo: Hermann Josef Abs signing the London agreement canceling German foreign debt on 27 February 1953.
By Eric Toussaint
Mar. 27, 2018
In 2020, the World Bank...
Germany is not paying war reparations to Greece, it is paying...
Germany’s pensions for Nazi collaborators abroad strain relations with EU neighbors
Don’t mention the war; German economists criticizing Berlin’s sacrosanct debt brake; Opel’s long-awaited return...
¿Por qué la anulación de la deuda alemana en 1953 no...
por Eric Toussaint
27 de marzo 2018
En 2020, el Banco Mundial (BM) y el FMI cumplirán 76 años. Estas instituciones financieras internacionales (IFI), creadas en...
Coronavirus crisis: now is the hour of Modern Monetary Theory
by Peter Bofinger
on 23rd March 2020
The measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic not only comprise a unique experiment in health policy. They have...