Eurozone: Move over politicians, here come the German Judges!
It’s not just the politicians who make decisions about how to rescue the foundering Euro: a Constitutional Court in Germany also has a say on the most important decisions: Germany’s…
Angela Merkel
Eurozone: The coming New Deal
Thank heavens for democracy! In a world taken to the brink of financial implosion because of lax regulations of financial institutions, incompetence of regulatory authorities, pure greed on the part…
Saving Solar Power in Germany
German Solar Park. For most of the past winter, Germany’s 1.1 million solar power systems that crisscross the country have sat relatively idle. Overcast skies and a relative lack of…
The Eurocrisis – A Gallic snub, No Haircuts & More Stability Funds
What a dramatic few days we have just lived through! The grandest experiment in modern history – the European Union – has weathered a major threat to its existence, with…
UK’s Cameron needs to take a lesson from The Gambler
Lissen up, David: Click here! And listen especially hard when Kenny Rogers has this to say: And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression.Said, “If you’re…
David ‘Two-Speed’ Cameron and the EuroCop
Chancellor Merkel’s glacial crawl towards the creation of an all-powerful EuroCop with powers to veto the budgets of Eurozone nations is beginning to make Prime Minister Cameron a bit nervous.…
Will Germany pay more for helping save the Euro than it paid for losing the War?
The figures seem to show it would, according to Landon Thomas in The New York Times: This Lady ain’t for stampeding … Bernard Connolly, a longtime critic of European policies,…
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bypassing tactic on its way to success
David Cameron wants a pound of flesh in return for the UK agreeing to changes to the EU Treaty to bring on closer fiscal union in the Eurozone. Pushed by…
Angela Merkel tosses Cameron a bone and presses on with Little EU amendments
David Cameron rubbed his hands in glee a few weeks ago when Angela Merkel insisted that the European Union treaty be amended as part of her agreement to save weaker…