Essays & News

Last week, Washington finally allowed Ukraine to use American equipment to attack some targets inside Russia. Heeding the signal from the United States, Chancellor Olaf Scholz dropped his resistance and approved the same for German-made weapons. The Western approach to foreign and security policy in Europe consistently follows three principles: ignore the problem and do nothing, make the wrong […]

  On March 21, 2024, the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) and 16 state attorneys general announced a broad lawsuit against Apple on antitrust grounds. The suit’s crux lies in Apple’s tight control over the iPhone ecosystem. Apple says this control contributes to the smartphone’s appeal for users, while the U.S. government argues it […]

  European nations have never been able to develop a credible joint military capability. In 1954, France torpedoed the attempt to establish the European Defense Community (outlined in the 1952 Treaty of Paris), and NATO has remained the only common defense umbrella. It is based on American resources and equipment plus American, French and British […]

Diesen Newsletter begann ich auf der mehrstündigen Rückfahrt nach Wien von der alljährlich stattfindenden Gottfried von Haberler-Konferenz des ECAEF in Vaduz zu schreiben. Thema der Konferenz war dieses Jahr die Privatisierung des Bildungswesens, insbesondere freie Schulwahl und Wettbewerb zwischen Staat und privaten Anbietern durch die Einführung eines Gutschein-Systems, wie es etwa in Schweden bereits seit den frühen 1990er Jahren existiert. […]