From Realpolitik to Empty Chair Politics
January 17, 2025Tensions Between Scholz and His Foreign Minister Baerbock at Breaking Point. She turned her back on him without even responding to him, and did so publicly and ostentatiously. What caused this volte-face? Scholz rejected a €3 billion aid package for Ukraine, concocted by Baerbock and Boris Pistorius, the Defense Minister. I myself attended meetings…
European divergences
September 11, 2024Germans work one-third less than in 1970 Prosperity in Switzerland is based on hard work. 2112 hours a year and 20 days of vacation a year. Poland is nothing short of economic wonder. Standard of living in Poland overtaking Spain & Italy within just one generation is simply amazing. One of…
Is Europe waging war against its citizens ?
April 6, 20244 years after the Great Recession of 2007-2009, the United States had recovered 4 million jobs. 4 years after the pandemic, they now recover 6 million jobs, thanks to the massive fiscal stimuli implemented by the Biden administration. Europe, for its part, as usual, stagnates, vegetates. Wait: unless it tries to follow the United States,…