Lionel Barber

Is Germany really such a role model?

John Kampfner rightly highlights the country’s post-war achievements, but the Wirecard and Volkswagon scandals reveal a rotten corporate system

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issue 19 September 2020

  • Why the Germans Do It Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country

    John Kampfner

    Atlantic Books, pp. 320, £16

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