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Disruption to seaborne trade is making for a bad start to 2024, too.

Germany adopted the social market system of economic rules separated from political democracy, known as ordoliberalism, after 1945; it was later (...)

As fears grow of Germany as the ‘sick man of Europe’, the FDP’s embrace of the debt brake sits uncomfortably with massive investment required for Berlin’s green and digital economic transformation

Pressure is piling on Olaf Scholz as manufacturing industry pays the price for energy shortages

Diamond-Dybvig-Bernanke is a flawed model of banking that has no room for a lender of last resort

Peter Bofinger questions last week’s award of a prestigious economics prize to an orthodox school which could not anticipate the 2008 crash.

Financial markets, Brussels wary of Italy far-right win

From her euroscepticism to her impact on Italy's enormous debt, the likely victory of far-right leader Giorgia Meloni in elections Sunday is causing concern

From her euroscepticism to her impact on Italy's enormous debt, the likely victory of far-right leader Giorgia Meloni in elections Sunday is causing concern in financial markets and in Brussels.

The latest crisis is stretching the idea of solidarity among EU nations close to breaking point