According to the DIW the ECB’s return to expansionary policy is both correct and likely to contrast significantly with the German public’s perceptions, which skew financially conservative. Might this be a new source of tension between Germany and the EU?
Related Articles
Corporate Tax Run Amok
Posted on Author Erik Sass
Corporate taxes are “out of control,” argues Matthias Bauer in a new report for the European Centre for International Political Economy. Among other charges, the report characterizes the EU taxes on digital platforms as a form of “tax protectionism.”
Carbon tax would be incompatible with trading system
Posted on Author Erik Sass
“CO2 pricing – Reformation or revolution?” By Dr. Malte Jahn, courtesy of HWWI The climate policy in Germany is probably more in question than it has been since the first Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) passed 20 years ago. The voices of the “Fridays for Future […]
Abolishing private schools is a bad idea (and impossible)
Posted on Author Erik Sass
Labour’s plan to, in effect, abolish Britain’s private schools is pretty much the definition of pandering — a sensational and nakedly political sop to class resentment that is nonetheless counterproductive, unworkable and oh yes, probably illegal. Sure, nobody likes the British upper class (not […]