The German government has form when it comes to tolerating policies it rhetorically opposes […] the Karlsruhe ruling made something impossible for Germany that it had long tolerated […] There was a sudden pressure to come up with an alternative
Jana Puglierin assesses the recovery fund initiative by France and Germany
Everybody in Germany and also outside Germany was lamenting the German paralysis and that Merkel was a lame duck and that Germany was absent from the global stage; Germany was not a true European country
Jana Puglierin comments on the deepening of the rift between EU’s rich North and poorer South
This has always led me to reflect on why Europe is so important, why reconciliation is so important and why it is so important that we never again find ourselves in such a situation
Jana Puglierin speaks about the coronavirus crisis in Germany, 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the Karlsruhe verdict on the ECB bond-buying
Successes are nationalized, failures are Europeanized
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