I'll note that labour's place at the table in Germany has been shrinking in both extent and importance since the reunification. Whether this is a cause or a consequence (or both?) of the increasing financialisation is an interesting (i.e. non-trivial) question.

But if our exchange over the last few days has done nothing else, it has at least motivated me to dig a bit deeper in DB and SG, since they seem to be running their own foreign policy.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.