MUNICH — The increasing risk of a return of inflation in the United States and Europe is beginning to galvanise debates among economists.

MUNICH  —  A storm is raging over the European Union’s failure to have ordered more of the approved COVID-19 vaccines ahead of time.

MUNICH — The world took note when the German start-up BioNTech announced its breakthrough in the development of a new type of vaccine to combat COVID-19.

MUNICH — In her first annual “state of the union” address this month, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen confirmed that the European Union, with its Green Deal, has committed itself to a new and pervasive form of government intervention in the economy.

MUNICH — Under President Ursula von der Leyen, the new European Commission has big plans to address climate change.

MUNICH — Germany’s automobile industry is its most important industrial sector. But it is in crisis, and not only because it is suffering the effects of a recession brought on by Volkswagen’s own cheating on emissions standards, which sent consumers elsewhere.

MUNICH — On September 12, the European Central Bank decided to launch, yet, another asset-purchase programme, with plans to buy 20 billion euros in new securities per month for an indefinite period of time, using the same structure as it has in the past.

MUNICH — Expectations, and, for many economists, rather bad ones, have been confirmed: the European Central Bank (ECB) has decided to inflate the eurozone.

MUNICH — French President Emmanuel Macron thinks an overhaul of Germany’s economic model is overdue.