by Thorsten Koch The house price index EPX shows an growing trend. In April, prices for condominiums and single-family houses rose by 0.7 percent compared…

Continued wages for parents will be paid for up to 10 weeks instead of up to 6 weeks, the German Bundestag has decided. Single parents…

Lars Feld, the chairman of the expert panel on business practices, has rejected plans to assume local municipal debts. The Federal Government should not undertake…

Purchase premiums for passenger cars should only be paid for environmentally friendly technology, the Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) has emphasized. Support for the…

The Lufthansa Supervisory Board postponed the vote on the acceptance of the rescue package for the airline, in the amount of 9 billion euros. The…

by Thorsten Koch The German government wants to help Deutsche Bahn in the corona crisis. There are no plans to cut jobs, but austerity measures…

by Thorsten Koch The EU Commission would like to provide 750 billion euros to support the economy of member states suffering from the Corona crisis….

by Thorsten Koch A proposal by economic policy makers within the Union parties has raised criticism from many sides, namely to abstain from raising the…

Parts of the Union faction in the Bundestag want to abolish the solidarity surcharge, an additional tax, on July 1. This emerges from a draft…

Companies which come to employ, in succession, trainees laid off by insolvent companies could receive a government premium. The federal government, the federal states, business…