Marcel Fratzscher
Germany
business
Marcel Fratzscher is a German economist and professor at Humboldt-University of Berlin. Since February 2013 he has been president of the Berlin-based economic research institute DIW Berlin. He was previously head of International Policy Analysis at the European Central Bank. He also teaches International Finance in the Ph.D. programme in Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt.
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Sep 21, 2026
Far Left
The DIW Berlin president warned that German state economies will weaken as the AfD gets stronger, with people leaving the country.
The far left reads this as an establishment economist admitting that neoliberal neglect fuels the far right, but Fratzscher offers no structural solution beyond defending the same policies that created the crisis.