Tag: DACH Countries
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Opinion | The Price Germany Pays for Net Zero
[ad_1] Updated Jan. 5, 2024 8:20 am ET Germans stopped counting long ago, but the rest of the world still might be interested in what Europe’s largest economy is paying to accomplish its transition to net-zero carbon emissions. The short answer: There’s a reason Germans prefer not to know. Consider the construction of new green…
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Opinion | Worldwide, 2024 Elections Promise a Whirlwind
[ad_1] Dec. 28, 2023 12:49 pm ET It’s (almost) election year, baby! Every year is important in its way, and most elections matter to someone. Even so, 2024 promises to be unusually electorally exciting due to the sheer amount of voting across the democratic world—and over what issues. What seems likely to be an awful…
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Opinion | Germany Faces the Green Fiscal Truth
[ad_1] Things have gone from bad to worse in Germany this week after a court ruling that’s forcing the government to do something truly shocking: level with voters about how much the net-zero energy transition will cost. Please pass the smelling salts. The country’s highest constitutional court ruled this month that one of the coalition…
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Opinion | Fall of the Wall
[ad_1] James Freeman is assistant editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page and author of the weekday Best of the Web column. He is the co-author of “Borrowed Time: Two Centuries of Booms, Busts and Bailouts at Citi,” recognized as a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Financial Times Business Book of the…