Comments on: 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

Comments on: 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 https://bubblereport.eu/germany-europes-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-executiv/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:40:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1