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12 February 2025

The EPP is waiting for the vote in Germany and the subsequent formation of a government to see how to proceed. The Stockholm Declaration only talks about security and other agreeable issues, without any reference to green policies or immigration. Not to mention economic policy. Yesterday, during the vote in Strasbourg on the annual report on the ECB, an issue came to the fore that is common to almost all political parties (S&D, Renew, EPP, ECR, etc.), namely the differences between frugal and pro-European states on EU economic policy. In fact, even in the EPP, some MEPs abstained on amendments proposed by the Left, which rightly pointed out the dysfunctionality of a system that has a common monetary policy without a common fiscal and industrial policy, and also criticized the ECB for its too rigid interest rate policy.

10 December 2024

God willing, they may begin to awaken from their long hibernation. Badger Europe may begin to realize what is taken for granted elsewhere. In some frugal countries, such as Denmark, the need for a common debt is beginning to sink in. And in Germany, the taboo on debt brake reform is beginning to fall. Who knows if Merz will slowly come around. There is no hope for Ferber, for whom austerity is a religion

09 November 2024

SOS Europe, Help! Some Germans are still struggling to open their eyes. And in the hope that Trump won’t do what he says, they are still fantasizing about unrealizable things. Like CDU secretary general Carsten Linnemann, who fantasizes about free trade agreements between Europe and the U.S. instead of thinking about how to strengthen domestic demand. If they continue their obsession with austerity this time, they will not only lead Greece into the abyss, but Germany itself and the whole of Europe. Let us hope that Weber and the true Catholics in the EPP will be able to open the eyes of their compatriots

10 September 2024

We are in the final comic moments: the CDU – after voting in the European Parliament for a ban on internal combustion engines from 2035, and after having forced even other EPP delegations that were against it at the time to do the same – changes its mind and shifts into reverse gear. Did they have to wait for the collapse of the car industry to realize this? What strategists! In the face of Draghi’s statements, Ehler and Schwab make statements cloaked in mock enthusiasm, emphasizing only the part that interests them and the frugals: innovation and the domestic market. No mention of the importance of a common debt.

04 September 2024

The ultra-right’s boom in Germany shakes the heart of Europe. In last sunday’s vote AfD was the first party in Thuringia, and second in Saxony, marking the first victory of a far-right party in a German state since World War II. Today no one wants to deal with them, a party that still has neo-Nazi overtones, so it will stay out of the decision room. But for how long? Lorenzo Castellani, historian and political scientist at Luiss-Guido Carli University in Rome, analyzes its success and what it will bring in the near future

Big troubles in Germany – From being an undisputed power in the European economic system, Berlin is finding itself fragile and vulnerable to the billows of global instability. In the mid-1990s, as the European Union went from one crisis to another, there was one constant: Germany, and in particular Angela Merkel, its chancellor, the star around which the rest of Europe orbited. But now the Deutschland Model devoured itself, appearing increasingly bewildered and unable to define itself amid the East-West rift but especially in the competition between the United States and the China-Russia bloc

Germany, Europe’s super-engine, is breaking down – Berlin is flagellating itself over austerity measures that hurt everyone. The ongoing dispute over increased public spending in the federal executive is preventing agreement on the 2025 budget and is emblematic of a Germany that is slowing down to defend the “debt brake”. The same dynamic is repeated in the EU. Germany wants to preserve its hegemonic role by rejecting the common debt, even if only to finance defence spending, as proposed by the European Commission

Anything but relying on the French and the Italians – One of the most pressing problems for the European Union is air defense, which is currently provided by Germany, which in turn chooses to depend on two actors: Israel and the United States, which supply the Arrows 3 and Patriot respectively. But what happens if for some reason the said supply should be interrupted? It seems that from the Russian energy problems, the Germans have learnt nothing…

Sixty-eight years and still going strong – After his almost unanimous confirmation at the head of the CDU, Friedrich Merz wants to take over the country. The perennial runner-up to Angela Merkel now has no obstacles in his path to the presidency. The low approval ratings of Olaf Scholz and the Social Democrats open the way for a conservative comeback in Germany, but not in the form of the AfD, which must be contained. The stars seem to be aligned and the possible new Chancellor is already beginning to pose as such

RN and AfD preparing for a split? – As we have been predicting for months, relations between the German and French far-right are becoming increasingly tense, as the latest row over the island of Mayotte has shown. Marine Le Pen is now playing the role of national unifier, while on the other side, scandals and irreconcilable political tendencies show once again how nationalist parties are struggling to work together. Meanwhile, Giorgia Meloni and the ECR are waiting in the wings…

Another spy bites the dust – This time it is the turn of an European AfD functionary to be arrested for being a spy. According to initial reports, Maximilian Krah’s assistant – Jian Guo – was apparently in contact with the Chinese leadership, to whom he passed sensitive information. Europe seems to have no defence: in recent weeks we have reported on a network of spies infiltrating institutions on behalf of the Russians. Now this development, coincidentally a few days after the meeting between Scholz and Xi

More than seven thousand kilometres for nothing – Olaf Scholz visits Xi Jinping in Beijing to reiterate what the US had already said: China must mediate with Putin and do something about its system’s overcapacity problems. But the chancellor seems to be doing more for his country’s interests than for those of the union. In fact, there is no other way to explain the joint declaration on self-driving cars (and thus 5G technology), despite the serious cybersecurity problems that Beijing imposes on the European continent

With no more gas from Russia and no booming exports to China, and with war on Europe’s doorstep, Germany’s CDU/CSU and FDP insist on the cry of austerity, this time taking Germany down with it, not just a few European countries. Coincidentally, these parties insist on nominating austerity obsessives as Markus Ferber (EPP coordinator in ECON) and other hawks like him to the European Parliament. They call themselves moderates, but instead they push extremism. God bless Europe!

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