Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN By Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint PARIS (IDN) – The state and evolution of the German economy is an extremely important variable for the recovery of the global economy; Germany is a heavyweight in the European Union and thereby in many ways an indicator of the strength and [...]
Of Social Justice and Lack of It
March 11, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN By Julio Godoy IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint BERLIN (IDN) – Between the end of World War II and 1979 it was conventional wisdom in North America, Western Europe, and the industrialised countries of Asia and Oceania that taxes were the best way to make social justice dreams come true. In those [...]
EUROPE: Economists Blame Germany for Mediterranean Crisis
March 5, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Julio Godoy BERLIN, Mar 5 (IPS) – Germany’s obsession with maintaining a trade surplus, in line with its mercantilist traditions, is one cause for the severe economic crisis that has gripped several Euro-Mediterranean countries, say economists. Germany, the largest economy in the European Union (EU), has been for more [...]
ECONOMY: Government Failures Feeding Next Financial Bubble
November 25, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by Julio Godoy BERLIN, Nov 24 (IPS) – Numerous failures by industrialised countries’ governments and central banks in managing the financial crisis are feeding the next bubble, which most likely will again provoke economic woes such as recession, unemployment, and poverty, according to economists and analysts. The failures [...]
GERMANY AND THE US: Angela Merkel Speaks Out
November 6, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN BY ERNEST COREA IDN-InDepthNews Service WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – Two days after Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke here on the need for internationally binding obligations to combat climate change, the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee endorsed a climate bill aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent [...]
GERMANY: New Govt May Neglect Development Aid
October 29, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Julio Godoy BERLIN, Oct 29 (IPS) – Concerns have risen with the inauguration of the new government that Germany will cut back on its commitments on international development. Misgivings have arisen over the appointment of Dirk Niebel from the Free Democratic Party (FDP) as the minister for economic [...]
DISARMAMENT: Toward A Nuke-Free Germany?
October 28, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN BY RAMESH JAURA Republished with permission from IDN-InDepthNews Service BERLIN (IDN) – The new conservative-liberal coalition government wants the United States to withdraw all nuclear weapons still deployed in Germany despite the fall of the Berlin Wall, end of the cold war and re-unification twenty years ago. Confirming the [...]
GERMANY: East Is East
October 15, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Wolfgang Kerler LEIPZIG, Germany, Oct 15 (IPS) – Twenty years after the Berlin Wall came down, rifts between east and west Germany remain: east Germans vote differently, are earning less money, and are more pessimistic than west Germans. "Many east German people are frustrated," civil rights activist Rainer [...]
GERMANY: Rebuilding Controversially Over a Disputed Past
October 14, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Julio Godoy BERLIN, Oct 14 (IPS) – Reconstruction of some of Berlin’s historic buildings that were damaged during World War II or by the Communist regime that earlier ruled East Germany, is raising troubling questions about Germany’s past, and its future. The reconstruction programme takes a big step [...]
GERMANY: The Berlin Wall Came Down, Others Went Up
October 12, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Ramesh Jaura TURIN, Italy, Oct 12 (IPS) – Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, circumstances leading to that landmark event and what really happened behind the scenes remain a subject of debate. Equally controversial is what the fall of the wall brought in its wake. [...]
