By Rhod Mackenzie
Economists have been sounding the alarm for years now, saying that the "debt brake" mechanism, which was introduced into the German Constitution 14 years ago, is a ticking time bomb. In light of the Constitutional Court's recent decision on a crucial budgetary matter, the mechani...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Europe has officially acknowledged its member economies face a significant economic downturn: by year-end, GDP will decrease in ten EU member states. These include not only “lagging behind” nations, such as Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, but also some of the leading leading econom...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Siemens Energy has taken on debt to protect its sustainable business. The energy division of Siemens Energy AG, which is the biggest unit of the German engineering corporation Siemens, has agreed a deal worth €15 billion with a group of banks, the German government, and its share...
By Paul Goncharoff
With all the geopolitical and economic upheavals happening on what seems an accelerated daily basis, often important details get lost in the urgency of other events. Over the past weeks we have seen BRICS steadily growing, and just the Belt & Road forum has shown clear, goal dri...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Russia has submitted a draft statement to the UN Security Council regarding the terrorist attack on Nord Stream. Dmitry Polyansky, the First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations, made this announcement. The statement stresses that the acts of terrorism...
By Rhod Mackenzie
For the first two decades of the 21st century, Germany was in its economic ascendency. Its economy boomed,it was one success after another. It gained dominace in world markets in areas such as high-tech,luxury cars and precision engineering and sold so much of its output that i...