With the progress achieved in the implementation of a Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and the agreement on a future procedure for a Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) for distressed banks, the EU has taken an important step towards establishing a Banking Union. Spain and Ireland have declared...

Die gesamtwirtschaftliche Produktion in Deutschland wird im Jahr 2014 beschleunigt expandieren. Das weltwirtschaftliche Umfeld bessert sich, die binnenwirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen sind weiter günstig. Die konjunkturelle Expansion wird von der Binnenwirtschaft getragen. Im...

The European Council proposes to the European Parliament that Jean-Claude Juncker become president of the European Commission. Aiming to get the inflation rate in the euro area back to the 2 percent threshold, the ECB introduces, for the first time in its history, negative interest rates for ECB...

In this book, the French philosopher Philippe Nemo sets out to define briefly but clearly what western civilization means, guided by a philosophical and historical analysis of how it came into being. (Published in German.)