The costs of climate protection have to be earned. No green accounting reform will change that. It's just not so green when economic figures are greened by reforms.

Could the green taxonomy not be about sustainability and climate protection at all, but about maximizing the acquisition of EU funds for each country's own national energy industry?

China is blackmailing Lithuania by geo-economic means. In order to be able to counter such blackmail in a united manner, the European Union wants to enact an anti-coercion instrument.

The traffic light agenda could be pushed to its limits by inflation. Since inflation cannot be combated by a debt ceiling in Germany alone, conflicts in the euro zone are pre-programmed.

The conflict between China and Taiwan has many economic and geo-economic elements and could have far-reaching economic consequences.

The ECB will allow significantly higher inflation rates for as long as possible rather than putting the entire eurozone under pressure by raising interest rates.