Wolfgang Münchau: the end of the German era

China and its economic successes are on everyone’s lips. Under the previous government (and under pressure from the US), Germany already designated China a ‘systemic rival,’ whatever that may mean in concrete terms. In any […]

While the ECB paper does not exactly state the obvious the meaning is clear – even to get within a ballpark of what is required will require substantial austerity being imposed on areas of expenditure […]

Each time a new British prime minister is selected in the recent past the judgement is that they were the worst prime minister in British history. Boris Johnson has fulfilled this. But behind every prime […]