Tag: Financial policy
After the corona crisis: back to austerity?
Economic and financial policies tend to move back and forth like a pendulum. The euphoria about the power of government action is usually followed by setbacks, disillusionment and less ambition.…
The US government threatens to default in mid-December
Janet Yellen The US Treasury Secretary warns of a US default. (Photo: Reuters) Washington US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned of a possible default by the US government on…
EU debt rules: France calls for euro reform
EU stars on the Eiffel Tower Rules that do not inhibit government investments in climate protection and new technologies. (Photo: imago stock & people) Paris, Berlin, Brussels The coalition negotiations…
EU debt rules: France calls for euro reform
EU stars on the Eiffel Tower Rules that do not inhibit government investments in climate protection and new technologies. (Photo: imago stock & people) Paris, Berlin, Brussels The coalition negotiations…
“The 60 percent are obsolete”
Bruno Le Maire The 50-year-old has been Minister of Finance and Economy in France since 2017. (Photo: Bloomberg / Getty Images) Paris France is promoting a comprehensive reform of the…
EU debt rules: France calls for euro reform
EU stars on the Eiffel Tower Rules that do not inhibit government investments in climate protection and new technologies. (Photo: imago stock & people) Paris, Berlin, Brussels The coalition negotiations…
Agreement in dispute over EU budget for 2022
EU The European Union has agreed on a budget for the coming year. (Photo: dpa) Brussels Negotiators from the European Parliament and the governments of the EU countries have agreed…
Is the ECB secretly postponing its monetary value targets?
Anyone who likes the European Central Bank (ECB) emphasizes that the policies of many euro countries are dumping their unsolved problems with the central bank. Those who are skeptical about…
Germany with tax plus until 2025
Olaf Scholz (SPD), Christian Dürr and Christian Lindner (both FPD) in the Bundestag The traffic light coalition can distribute more money thanks to the increasing tax revenues. (Photo: dpa) Berlin…
Germany invests in climate protection and digitization
An analysis by the Agora Energiewende think tank with the New Economy Forum puts the necessary investments in climate protection alone at 460 billion euros by 2030, of which the…
Economically lower growth forecast to 2.7 percent
Economy The automotive industry is particularly suffering from delivery bottlenecks. (Photo: dpa) Berlin In 2021, the German economy is expected to grow by only 2.7 percent. According to Handelsblatt information,…
Armin Steinbach: The debt brake needs a European solution
The traffic light coalition One point of discussion in the traffic light negotiations is the debt brake. (Photo: Reuters) The fiscal policy debate is not lacking in imagination. It is…
Comment: Budget planning: The ideas of the traffic light coalition are a breach of the constitution with an announcement
The traffic light is looking for creative ideas to circumvent the debt brake. There are better solutions to finance investments. .source site
Traffic light coalition can distribute more money
The traffic light coalition Habeck, Baerbock, Scholz and Lindner: The traffic light parties gain some financial leeway for their dream projects. (Photo: Reuters) Berlin Good news for the traffic light…
Why Lindner is better suited than Habeck
Robert Habeck and Christian Lindner The FDP boss and the co-boss of the Greens are interested in the post of finance minister. (Photo: dpa) Two offices stand for securing the…
With these tricks the traffic light coalition can run into more debt
Berlin The requirement sounds clear: “We will guarantee the necessary future investments within the framework of the constitutional debt brake, especially in climate protection, digitization, education and research as well…
What the traffic light alliance has to do now
All those who had hoped for a similarly strong post-corona upswing this year as in the summer of the previous year were taught otherwise by the Federal Statistical Office last…
Merkel presents Scholz on the world stage
Rome Angela Merkel is saying goodbye to the world stage after 16 years – the Chancellor has decided to do so with an unusual gesture at the G20 summit in…
Many Greeks do not shed tears after her
Athens Angela Merkel has often wrestled with Greece and the Greeks in the past ten years, and probably also quarreled. The Greek debt crisis plunged the euro zone into severe…
The government should not only set new priorities – it should also cut old ones
The basic idea behind the debt brake is simple: apart from severe recessions, the state’s expenditure should be financed by its current income. Since governments tend to spend more money…