governance

A self-declared democratic socialist as mayor of Big Apple*.   “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about”. Zohran Mamdani I It is rather unfortunate but hardly disputable that Socialism, despite its theoretical blunders, its catastrophic record, and all […]

ECAEF President and Geopolitical Intelligence Services founder and chairman Prince Michael of Liechtenstein conducted this interview with German entrepreneur Andrea Thoma-Boeck, founder and president of the Initiative Zukunft Wirtschaft Deutschland e.V. (IZW), on the root causes of her country’s economic trouble and the necessary solutions.    Germany, the fifth-largest global economy and by far the largest […]

  The German government finds itself unable to endorse the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, a broad proposed EU regulation that would punish businesses for environmental and human rights violations in their supply chains. The Liberals within the governing coalition are withholding their support – a decision made on solid grounds. The directive mandates that […]

The subtitle of this essay has been borrowed from Terry L. Anderson’s conference on ‘Markets vs. Mandates. Promoting Environmental Quality and Economic Prosperity’, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Jan. 30, 2023. Permission granted. Take Away The scarcity of means to satisfy given ends is an omnipresent condition of life and all conscious human actions profoundly affect […]

Friedrich Merz, chairman of Germany’s largest party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), indicated that a collaboration with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party at the municipal level could be a possibility. This resulted in an outcry. Especially during the 16-year chancellorship of Angela Merkel, the CDU maintained a strict firewall between themselves and the AfD, […]