Euro Watch
Euro Watch
by | May 16, 2025

DÜSSELDORF, Germany — The European Union remains, at least in theory, a union of sovereign nation-states. Even within the nearly identical Eurozone, national budget sovereignty still prevails. But now, through a mix of war rhetoric and Putin panic, efforts are…

by | May 15, 2025

DÜSSELDORF, Germany — The general state debt spiral should be a constant feature in daily headlines. Its prominence should force policymakers into a radical fiscal turnaround. Yet while Germany is working under immense pressure to ban the AfD, forming alliances…

by | May 9, 2025

Europe is at risk of falling behind in the global race for modern satellite infrastructure. With its investment in Eutelsat, the EU aims to counter Elon Musk’s dominance through Starlink and pursue its own strategic path. A leadership change is…

by | May 6, 2025

Just a week after a massive blackout on the Iberian Peninsula, Brussels is once again turning its focus to energy policy. This time, it’s about a final break: a complete halt to Russian gas imports by 2027. On Tuesday, the…

by | Apr 29, 2025

While Donald Trump proclaims a new Declaration of Independence for the United States, Europe is sleepwalking through this historic shift. The state of European politics can best be captured by looking at the formation of Germany’s new government: sluggish, backward-looking,…

by | Apr 25, 2025

Visitors to Western Europe have grown accustomed to young male migrants hawking selfie sticks, demanding a few euros, or — most often — simply loitering. Cities behind the former Iron Curtain have largely avoided this transformation. In Warsaw and other…

by | Apr 25, 2025

Germany today is not just in recession — it’s in a deep systemic crisis of its own making. Once Europe’s industrial benchmark, the country now endures its longest downturn since World War II. Yet rather than own their policy failures,…

by | Apr 20, 2025

Europe’s business elite rarely ventures into the political arena. That changed when Bernard Arnault, CEO of luxury giant LVMH and Europe’s wealthiest man, broke his silence at a Paris shareholder meeting. His sharp critique of the European Union’s handling of…

by | Apr 17, 2025

The title sounds like the start of a bad joke, but it’s not. There they were, seated inside The Black Forge in Dublin — one, a controversial media firebrand; the other, a controversial MMA legend. Carlson in his jacket and…

by | Apr 11, 2025

The new German federal government is planning hundreds of billions of euros in new debt. With this, Germany joins the ranks of the heavily indebted states of the Eurozone. Officially, the funds are intended for military capability and infrastructure development….

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