Johannes Eber – The Pixel economist Inflation is back. After many years of low inflation rates, prices have recently risen in much of the world. The chart below shows the inflation rate of the G20 […]
by Johannes Eber – The Pixel Economist Here is the Top-10 list of countries with the largest natural gas reserves: 1. Russia2. Iran3. Qatar4. United States5. Saudi Arabia6. Turkmenistan7. United Arab Emirates8. Venezuela9. Nigeria10. China […]
by Johannes Eber – The Pixel economist At the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the Russian currency ruble lost almost half its value compared to the US-Dollar. In the meantime, the ruble has almost […]
Johannes Eber – Good morning Europe blog Viewed from above, there are no big differences between Europe and Africa. That changes the closer you look. Above all, the economic disparities are still huge. The GDP […]
Johannes Eber – Good morning Europe blog The compromise had only bought Poland and Hungary time. – In late 2020, a new mechanism was adopted, allowing the EU to reduce funding to countries where rule […]
Authoritarian rulers are known for having an ambivalent relationship with reality. If promises do not match actual developments, then discrepancies must be made invisible. The problem is that the longer one denies those discrepancies, the greater they usually become. Too little is done then. It’s hard to fight issues that don’t officially exist. In Turkey, discrepencies can no longer be ignored. […]
Much of the world wants to prevent Putin’s Russia from invading Ukraine. The means of prevention: setting the price, Putin would have to pay, as high as possible. The west has ruled out military means to inflate the price. For a good reason. The costs of a military conflict between Russia on the one hand and Europa and the USA on the other would be immense, not just for Putin. […]
🇮🇹 / Italian president Johannes Eber Good morning, you may wonder why Italian’s voting for the next president started on Monday but it is still not decided who will follow president Sergio Mattarella, whose term will end on […]
🇷🇸 / Novak Djokovic / #73 By Johannes Eber When I was a teenager, Germany had an athlete as a national hero: tennis player Boris Becker. I had never been interested in tennis, Germany had never […]
There is so much writing about Ukraine these days. For good reasons. The threats from Putin’s Russia could lead to war.
I asked myself what I could add to help understand that conflict. Thinking about it, I realised that I know very little about the basics and Ukraine’s history. Maybe you feel the same.
So I’ve put together some facts I hadn’t known before delving into preparing for writing this post. Even if the following points have nothing to do directly with the current situation, they might be a bit enlightening. Because as always: knowing the past helps to understand the present. […]
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