As the lack of sufficient information for the calculation of the price index is generally known, the ECB no longer sets the objective of achieving the statistical annual rate of zero per cent of price increase but aims for an annual increase of slightly less than two per cent. The task of the...

In connection with the immensely increasing public debt both within the European Union and in other leading industrial countries of the world, reproaches are made again and again that this constitutes also an increasing burden for the future generations of the population of these countries. Such...