Italy & Germany in turbulent times
The crises of the decade 2011-2022 magnified the divergence between Italy’s and Germany’s economic performance and created tensions in their relationship at EU level. After the economic crisis and the refugee crisis, the Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine added other major strains on both economies, causing increases in the price of energy and the need to revise well-established trade relations. This volume looks at the effects of these multiple crises on several aspects of the political and economic systems of Italy and Germany and seeks to provide interpretative tools to analyze the challenges to come.