“... should we look for a solution? One of the more creative thinkers today is the German sociologist Wolfgang Streeck, who makes it clear that an alternative structure for the European Union is desperately needed and that it will necessitate more democracy at every stage – at a provincial and city level as well as a national and European level. There ...”

“... the jurists Dieter Grimm (Germany) and Thomas Horsley (Britain); the sociologists Claus Offe and Wolfgang Streeck (Germany); the political scientists Christopher Bickerton (Britain), Morten Rasmussen (Denmark) and Antoine Vauchez (France); the historians Kiran Klaus Patel (Germany) and Vera Fritz (Luxembourg). In the work of these and other ...”

“... of private, corporate and eventually public debt. In Buying Time, his pathbreaking work of 2014, Wolfgang Streeck describes this as claims on future resources that have yet to be produced; Marx more bluntly called it ‘fictitious capital’. Eventually, as predicted by more than one critic of the system, the pyramid of debt caved in, causing the crash ...”

“... nation-state, but of all nation-states, keeps raising alarm bells in other European countries’ (Wolfgang Streeck). ‘This is why we outlawed these crappy referendums. First the British, now the Turks!’ (man at my local bakery in Berlin). Brexit has contributed to a gradual but tidal change in the way Germans see Europe. On the one hand, it is ...”