Tag: Wolfgang Münchau
Ukraine Crisis: Why Vladimir Putin Wins
Vladimir Putin is a master of modern communication because he knows that effective messages have a hidden and a public component. We don’t have to rely on security analysts to…
The moment to depose Johnson is over
When Lenin deposed the tsar, he did not wait for a report. In uprisings and revolutions, timing is key. The time to oust British Prime Minister Boris Johnson would have…
When did we lose the fight?
If you fight for a cause and you don’t achieve it, at what point do you accept defeat? We want to keep fighting for some things, for example for human…
If Russia invades, Europe will appease
The tragedy of Europe is that Germany is not against Russia and the EU is not against Germany. A Russian invasion of Ukraine will have many losers. I expect that…
Boris Johnson should ask him to come back
But what is really important is the resignation of Brexit Minister David Frost from the cabinet. Frost cited the reason in a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson earlier that…
The EU wants the unicorns – but Great Britain gets them
Last week, Apple’s market cap cracked the $ 3 trillion mark. That was more than the entire German stock market on that day. The digital revolution was an American one.…
Does Scholz bring more innovation, digitization and Co.?
Nonetheless, his future coalition partners have expressed their admiration for the professional manner in which he conducted the coalition talks. The Germans wanted and got a safe pair of hands.…
Future government must distribute competences more clearly
In some practices and vaccination centers there was already a shortage of vaccine. The delivery bottlenecks should be the exception, assures Gabriele Regina, the President of the Federal Association of…
Crypto and AI are the biggest political disruptors of our time
What do camera manufacturers and banks have in common? They have both made the transition to the digital world, but they are being challenged by disruptive technologies. The smartphone has…
Forecast models cannot react to reality
Pandemic models are sometimes wrong – wrong in the sense of being too pessimistic, sometimes too optimistic. In contrast, macroeconomic inflation models are characterized by being wrong and skewed. They…
The role of the Federal Constitutional Court in Polish judgments
I still remember my shock in the early 1990s when a colleague at the London newspaper “The Times” told me that the Eurosceptics were winning the argument. Until then, I…
These are the five levels of inflation denial
This is not a column on whether or not inflation will rise. There are reasons to believe that it could go up, but reasonable people may disagree on this point.…