A new enlightenment is needed
In the last few days I have watched some documentaries dealing with the topic of the greed and megalomania of German banks and large companies. Amongst others I watched documentaries about the West LB and […]
Entries by Nina Hoppe
Austria and Leonard Bernstein
“These days you have to be in the majority” This true and weighty sentence comes from one of my favourite works by Leonard Bernstein “Candide”. Bernstein would have been 100 years old this year. He […]
Break-Out-Line
It is astonishing that after the elections on October 15 we will harvest what the black-blue government sowed in 2000-2006. Not diametrically but head on. We are witnessing the demise of the social democratic ideal, […]
Europe comes up trump(s)
Even the 5th series of House of Cards can no longer compete with this. American Realpolitik has now trumped the supposedly implausible manoeuvring of Frank Underwood. But the pleasing thing about this is that Europe […]
Van der Bellen and the “Headscarf”
The debate is too polemical and undifferentiated. It implies that every Muslim woman with headscarf is a woman who “submits” to political Islam and its anti-liberal views. This is not the case. Until the advent […]
The guarantee for liberal democracy
After what feels like an eternity Austria finally has a new federal president. The timing could not be better for a liberal democrat to take up the highest office of the Republic of Austria, right […]
“Trumpelling around”
Can you remember the “Shutdown”. That was in autumn 2013 when the Republicans voted to block the budget for 2013 in order to (amongst other things) derail Obamacare. In addition there was the risk of […]
Politics as risk
2012 in Tokyo: at the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the European debt crisis (and risk) was the focus. ECB members sat on the podium. They defended the eurozone […]
Damaging Public Office
“The more frequently a politician contradicts himself the bigger he becomes.” Friedrich Dürrenmatt The question I have been asking myself for weeks now is: has public office been damaged by the developments of recent years […]
Structural reforms – wake up Austria!
The conference organized by the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs in Brussels was exciting. It dealt with structural reforms and the deepening of the economic and monetary union. Reforms! Said Draghi. Reforms! Demanded Dombrovskis. […]
