Panorama

Since the beginning of the new millennium, the historical development of European economies has revealed a recurring pattern in which apparently stable state finances suddenly collapse under the pressure of uncontrolled capital flows. While political perception has long been on... [...]

Demands for increased taxes usually come from politicians, a group within society that rarely actually acts productively - often it wasn't even before their political career - and... [...]

State shadow profiles through the networking of personal data tear a gaping hole in the basic feeling of security and self-determination that everyone expects as their inviolable right. In the census judgment, the Federal Constitutional Court has the right to informational... [...]

Imagine politics is nothing but a tremendous theater where politicians do not act as statesmen, but as skillful actors who play roles that bring them fame and voices while behind... [...]

Criticism of the old debt law is more than a detailed debate about columns of numbers, it is an outcry about experienced injustice, legal constructions and the feeling that the lifetime of an entire population has been devalued. Many former GDR citizens feel the... [...]

The takeover of the DDR-Bank by West German financial institutions and the associated conversion of previous state grants and subsidies into interest-bearing loans was an abyss that plunged many GDR companies into an existential crisis. The subsidies that... [...]

In recent years, the number of unofficial and personal meetings between government officials, members of the federal government and various lobby players has increased rapidly. These informal encounters usually take place without protocol, without public documentation and outside of parliamentary control... [...]