Tom Krebs and Isabella M Weber

A wind turbine in front of the lignite-fired power station operated by German energy giant RWE near Neurath, western Germany.

Germany’s incoming government has embraced military Keynesianism

The country’s constitutional ‘debt brake’ has been amended to boost defence spending, limited to military expenditure. An opportunity to invest in the...

Protests in Hamburg against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Feb 2024. The government's initial "wait-and-see” approach to the energy-price shock prolonged a period of heightened economic insecurity and contributed to a sharp rise in support for the AfD .

Who’s afraid of price controls?

Why Germany’s economy is paying dearly for the government’s failure to cap energy costs in 2022