The failure of the meeting between the European leaders occurred on March 26th about the measures to be adopted to strengthen the solidarity between State-members and soften the economic consequences of the current outbreak shows to which point the European Union has not assessed the challenges to which it is confronted. So, it risks being one of the main victims. Germany and the Netherland have put their veto to the proposal of nine other States, among which are France, Italy, Spain, Belgium and even Luxemburg, to issue European bonds, the “corona bonds”, assigned to finance the countries which were the ...

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In a few days will be celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall fall, on November 9th. The East-German regime was already weakened by the weekly demonstrations in Leipzig. During summer, Austria had opened its border to allow those who wanted to migrate to West Germany to go there. The spectacle of the prosperity of their neighbors they see at the TV every evening was revealing, more than any political speech, the communism failure. The fall of this symbol which was cutting in two parts the historic German capital was unavoidable as the reunification which followed it. Nevertheless, it ...

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Frankfurt Show will close its doors at the end of the week. It is organized every two years alternately with the Paris one and it will have been impacted by three events which testify about the crisis which is announcing in this key sector of the German economy and which will not stay confined in this country. The chairman of the German carmakers Association, VDA, has announced his resignation the day after the inauguration by Angela Merkel. Most of the foreign carmakers, to the exception of Honda and Ford, have decided not to participate to the Show, which is unprecedented ...

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