Volkswagen has weathered wars, scandals and the reinvention of the automobile itself. But the restructuring now being fought over in Wolfsburg is of a different order: plans that could ultimately mean up to 100,000 fewer…
How Tourism Became Italy’s Most Important Industry —…
Italy has been a tourist destination for as long as tourism has existed. Goethe made the journey in the 1780s; the English gentry turned the Grand Tour into a rite of passage; and today, well…
Germany’s €500 Billion Infrastructure Fund, Explained — and…
In 2025, Germany did something that would have been politically unthinkable a few years earlier: it loosened its constitutional restraints on borrowing and created a €500 billion special fund for infrastructure and climate neutrality. The…