Corruption

The distrust of an exaggerated state urge to collect as much personal data as possible is deeply rooted in society. This critical basic feeling runs across the entire political spectrum, from the left to the... [...]

Germany's government expenditure is faced with a threat that is hardly to be calculated and often underestimated: the obligations arising from pensions for civil servants and employees in the public sector. The so-called pension bomb is becoming one of the biggest dangers for... [...]

The everyday life of citizens is under ever more severe pressure because the state is constantly demanding new taxes and levies, while the noticeable performance is clearly dwindling at the same time. The individual person experiences more... like month after month... [...]

The state interest in information about the citizens is a historically grown and fundamentally legitimate concern. Even in ancient times, such as the Romans, statistics and records of the population were kept in order to manage and... [...]

The constant increase in taxes and taxes on mobility by car is often hidden behind terms such as income, steering control or regulatory measures, but in reality it is a profound intrusion into liberty rights... [...]

The depressing feeling arises that programmable money is not just a modern form of means of payment, but a tool with which the state could intervene deeply in the lives of the citizens. Money was so far... [...]

The federal government's financial situation has now crossed a critical threshold - a development that has been ignored, glossed over for years or veiled by daring household constructions. The debt policy of the past years is the result of a structural failure:... [...]

The Lausitz, a region that is historically characterized by its diverse agricultural use, is now at a crossroads where the use of the areas for different purposes is conflicted. The agricultural tradition that... [...]

The feeling arises that the idea of insider trading within German secret services reveals a particularly toxic shade of state power, because not only corrupt individuals, but entire structures are suspected of being confidential knowledge as... [...]

Deflation, a general drop in price levels, is a multi-layered economic phenomenon that can have both positive and negative consequences for economies. While price cuts based on efficiency increases, in certain historical epochs to prosperity... [...]