Germany’s regulation of professional services needs an overhaul. The country has a wide variety of regulations governing the Freie Berufe, or “liberal professions”, an occupational category that includes…
Since the beginning of March 2016, the Federal Cartel Office has been investigating one of the giants of the digital economy on suspicion of misuse of market power – Facebook. Indeed, since the end of 2010, the…
Claims of increasing inequality are constantly making the headlines. In response to such claims, many are calling for the "rich" to be subject to higher levels of taxation and for further development of a…
The effects of the bombshell at the start of 2016 spread from China and had an impact on investors around the world. Within the space of a few days, the Chinese stock exchange fell by 15 per cent. Negative…
If German Minister of Finance, Wolfgang Schäuble, should happen to be stuck for ideas as to what to give his state ministers for Christmas, he need only read the states' proposal for reform of the German…
At the beginning of December, the nations of the world meet in Paris for the 2015 UN Climate Conference. The ultimate goal of the summit is to sign an agreement that will curb CO2 emissions and limit the…
Since the announcement of the European Central Bank’s Outright Monetary Transaction Programme (OMT), lending rates for Eurozone countries in high levels of debt have sunk to a level that cannot be justified by…
After the dramatic negotiations surrounding Greece’s debt crisis in July, European leaders launched a new aid programme for the ailing country. What does this mean for the future of the eurozone?
With a minimum wage in effect for Germany since the beginning of the year, it's time to take preliminary stock of its impact. Has the statutory minimum wage led to job cuts, as many critics feared? At first…
