Emmanuel Martin

  While democracy is an established modern political standard in the developed world, the recent trends toward populism (both from the right and left) have caused concerns. Populism usually comes with demands for increasing various protection from the government supposedly desired by the people. Populism has gained so much traction that these days it wins, […]

  The eurozone’s two largest countries, France and Germany, could drag the continent into a crisis. The year 2023 was bad for eurozone economies already, with sluggish overall growth a meager 0.6 percent. While short-term factors such as inflation and the necessarily tighter monetary policy can explain the latest developments, longer-term forces, especially in Germany and […]

Recent scenes of violence, chaos and looting in various French cities this summer certainly suggest a problem of “de-civilization.” However, the country faces another “de” issue – deindustrialization – and the two might be connected to some extent. Deindustrialization means a diminishing of industries, industrial jobs and industrial companies in the economy, with a declining […]