As fears grow of Germany as the ‘sick man of Europe’, the FDP’s embrace of the debt brake sits uncomfortably with massive investment required for Berlin’s green and digital economic transformation
The Ukraine war has accelerated the decay of the Left Party. Leading members are conducting a bitter slugging match in which the disintegration of the party seems only a matter of time. There is no progressive side to be found.
Putin’s war in Ukraine is unsettling many in Germany. A new peace movement is forming in the country, but it is stirring up the ghosts of German history – and has an open flank to the extreme right.
Olearius was the first senior banker charged for allegedly taking part in the controversial tax dividend scandal that cost German taxpayers billions of euros.