One common theme of the last two posts (letter one and letter two) were Germany’s rather peculiar views of Europe’s economic situation. In this post I expand on the reason for this: the quality of[…]
Author: odreyer
Germany’s idiosyncratic views test cohesion of eurozone
The following is another letter to the Financial Times. This one was published May 11th, 2016. Here is the article on the FT website. It was written as a response to an op-ed by Martin[…]
We Germans are mostly unaware of how we have benefited from the crises
To provide prosperity for all (part of the manifesto) Europe needs urgently to deal with its economic problems. Currently we have a prosperous North and a struggling South. This situation suggests a path forward: the[…]
Europe: a manifesto
It happened. The European Union got smaller. Since its tentative start the Union just kept growing. After the fall of the iron curtain it did so at an accelerated pace. This momentum is now lost[…]