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  1. Research // 01.07.2016

    Planned Revision of Inheritance Tax Largely Dispels Criticisms from the Federal Constitutional Court

    June 30, 2016, saw the expiry of the deadline imposed by the Federal Constitutional Court on the German Bundestag for the creation of a new statutory basis for the inheritance tax. Following a series of…
  2. Comment // 21.06.2016

    ZEW President Wambach Describes the Federal Constitutional Court's Decision on OMT as a Wise Middle Course

    For the President of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Achim Wambach, the decision reached today by the Federal Constitutional Court in regard to the ECB's OMT programme constitutes a wise middle…