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The Economist, Senior Germany Correspondent, based in Berlin, all opinions personal @vahavb
Berlin, Germany
Joined July 2013
My article this week.
Germany’s manufacturing base is shuddering. Industrial output has fallen by about a tenth over the past two years. Friedrich Merz says the country is “suffocating with red tape”. But he will face a daunting task if he becomes chancellor 👇
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RT @vonderburchard: “We don’t need to see him, he won’t be chancellor long.” JD Vance will not meet with Olaf Scholz at the Munich Securit…
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RT @TheEconomist: If Friedrich Merz becomes Germany’s chancellor he will need a mandate for sweeping change. So far, he has been too timid…
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RT @TheEconomist: On a daily, sometimes hourly, basis, Elon Musk claims that his team of fiscal commandos has cut more waste. But our revie…
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Our interview with Friedrich Merz a couple of weeks before Germany's pivotal election
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RT @LHSummers: I join Treasury Secretaries Rubin, Geithner, Lew and Yellen in writing this @nytopinion guest essay because we are alarmed a…
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My article this week on why German business leaders feel that are standing with theirs backs to the wall
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RT @TheEconomist: It is not clear that Germans are more poorly than other Europeans. There is a clear correlation between the generosity of…
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RT @TheEconomist: It doesn’t take a Nobel peace prizewinner to spot the problems with Donald Trump’s plan to make Gaza American. Moral…
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RT @TheEconomist: Donald Trump has underscored his reputation as an agent of chaos who uses extreme threats to wrest concessions out of oth…
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Indeed..
Just told @CNN: It is pretty rare to formulate a policy that is lose for American consumers, lose for American producers, lose for American influence in the world and only is benefiting our adversaries who are getting a great deal of satisfaction out of seeing this spectacle of traditional alliances being torn apart with these kind of threats.
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RT @TheEconomist: Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland account for about 1% of the world’s GDP and 0.3% of its population—but they have prod…
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