Laissons les migrants travailler!

« Paresseux », « sans instruction », « dangereux »! On a beaucoup parlé des migrants venant d’Afrique et du Moyen-Orient, depuis le début de ce qu’on appelle la crise des réfugiés. Afin de répondre aux arguments en faveur de la création d’emplois réguliers pour les migrants, prenons l’exemple de l’Allemagne, qui a été parmi les pays les plus accueillants envers les personnes déplacées: […]

Let the Migrants Work

The best welfare program is a job. For the worker, for society, for everyone “Lazy”, “Uneducated”, “Dangerous”. Much has been said about migrants coming from Africa and the Middle East, since the beginning of what is referred to as the refugee crisis. In order to address the arguments in favour of letting migrants take on […]

Germany’s election ‘chaos’ is a non-event

For a politician of Angela Merkel’s grandeur, it seems like nothing should come as a shock. Over 16 years as German chancellor, Merkel has weathered a financial crisis and the subsequent chaos of the European common currency, as well as the bank and Greek bailouts; a massive refugee influx; multiple political turmoils within the EU, […]

The German word for ‘debt’ also means ‘guilt’

What do the numbers 2 trillion, 2.1 trillion, 326 billion and 388 billion all have in common? That’s right, they’re all the total numbers of debt of European countries, namely (and in that order), Germany, France, Greece and Belgium. The debt of just these four countries combined is the equivalent of 137,000 tons of gold. […]

Martin Schulz is the first victim of Brexit

On September 24, Germans headed to the polls to elect a new parliament. Despite Angela Merkel’s Christian-Democrat CDU/CSU losing massively in support, she remains in a position of forming a government in the coming months. Her Social-Democrat rival Martin Schulz however lost his shot at the Chancellor’s office and announced on Sunday evening that his […]