This episode of the Global Economy Podcast is a recording of a recent webinar where Fredrik Erixon spoke with Wolfgang Münchau on the state of the German economy. The German economy is in a bad...

Germany's industry is in turmoil. Last year’s headlines about mass layoffs by German industrial giants like Volkswagen, Thyssenkrupp, BASF, and Continental were striking—but hardly...

The European Union on 30 January launched its Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the European Automotive Industry, an initiative aimed at safeguarding a sector under growing pressure. With EU...

France and Germany are Europe’s largest economies. Their collaboration has historically been a catalyst for change, often establishing benchmarks for economic and political integration. Today, in...

The stark disparity between the relatively low government revenue derived from corporate taxes and the substantial contributions from labour and consumption taxes in Germany underscores the need for...

Brussels is mired in debates that miss the mark. While the EU and Member States tinker with regulatory details and symbolic gestures, Europe’s economy suffocates under unchecked bureaucracy and a...

Teile der deutschen Wirtschaft äußern sehr große Bedenken hinsichtlich des Entwurfs für das Europäische Cybersicherheitszertifizierungsschema für Cloud-Dienste (EUCS) – ein Vorhaben, dass auf...

The German car manufacturer Daimler recently announced plans to set up its own recycling factory and to increase the share of recyclable parts of its cars production. BMW made similar plans public in...

In this episode, Fredrik Erixon and Philipp Lamprecht talk about Germany and the German economy, and more specifically about Philipp's new paper – What is Wrong with the German Economy? The Case...

In a recent study for the London School of Economics called Germany and the world of yesterday, Leon Mangasarian argues that Germany's golden age of security is over and that it would need to...