Britain is not the sick man of Europe – that accolade goes to Germany
To survive in a modern, digital world, the German economy requires not a green transition but a full-scale revolution.
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Welcome to the cost-of-adaptation crisis
Climate change is disrupting the food systems we rely on – and the free market offers no solutions.
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A rising backlash against green policies is energising Europe’s far right
The spectacular blooming, then rapid wilting, of Germany’s Greens is a warning for progressives everywhere.
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Rebuilding industry is a mistake. The West should focus on economic alliances instead
Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is laudable, but decades of decline cannot be reversed in a single presidential term.
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Britain’s Brexit divisions are re-emerging
This time, inflation is the battleground.
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Ukraine might win its war – but it won’t help the West’s wider struggle against autocracy
Led by hawks in the Biden administration, liberal democracies are stumbling into a commercial cold war with Beijing.
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Why China and its trading allies are well placed to topple the dollar
After decades meting out sanctions and financial coercion, the US may soon feel its grip on world trade beginning to…
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Europe’s centrist parties let industry rot and society fragment. Now they’re being punished for it
In Italy, France, Germany and Britain, the flight of voters to the political extremes can be mapped on to neglected…
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